Far Off Things - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1178339564 ISBN 13 : 9781178339567

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

To ALFRED TURNER This is a book, my dear Turner, which I had in my heart to write for many years. The thought of it came to me with that other thought that I was growing rather, grown old ;that the curtain had definitely been rung down on all the days of my youth. And so I got into the way of looking hack, of recalling the far gone times and suns of the seventies and early eighties when the scene of my life was being set. I made up my mind that I would write about it all some day. Some day would undoubtedly have been Never; if it had not been for you. I had not spoken of the projected hook to you or anyone else ;but one fine morning in 1915 you ordered me to write it! You were then, you will remember, editing the London Evening News, and as a reporter on your staff I had nothing to do hut to obey. The hook was written, appeared in the paper as The Confessions of a Literary Man and now reappears as Far Off Things: (j good. I enjoyed writing the book enormously ;and, I frankly confess, I enjoy reading it. In a word, I am not grumbling. But there is one little point that I do not mean to neglect.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1178339564
• ISBN 13: 9781178339567
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible