The Delicious Vice - Couverture rigide

Allison, Young E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1595408045 ISBN 13 : 9781595408044

Editeur : 1st Books Library, 2006

Synopsis

It must have been at about the good-bye age of forty that Thomas Moore, that choleric and pompous yet genial little Irish gentleman, turned a sigh into good marketable "copy" for Grub Street and with shrewd economy got two full pecuniary bites out of one melancholy apple of reflection:

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1907, this little book is a humorous love letter of sorts in honor of Reading The Novel. Excerpt from Delicious Vice: Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People It must have been at about the good-bye age of forty that Thomas Moore, that choleric and pompous yet genial little Irish gentleman, turned a sigh into good marketable "copy" for Grub Street and with shrewd economy got two full pecuniary bites out of one melancholy apple of reflection: "Kind friends around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather," - he sang of his own dead heart in the stilly night. "Thus kindly I scatter thy leaves on the bed Where thy mates of the garden lie scentless and dead." - he sang to the dying rose. In the red month of October the rose is forty years old, as roses go. How small the world has grown to a man of forty, if he has put his eyes, his ears and his brain to the uses for which they are adapted. And as for time - why, it is no longer than a kite string. At about the age of forty everything that can happen to a man, death excepted, has happened; happiness has gone to the devil or is a mere habit; the blessing of poverty has been permanently secured or you are exhausted with the cares of wealth; you can see around the corner or you do not care to see around it; in a word - that is, considering mental existence - the bell has rung on you and you are up against a steady grind for the remainder of your life.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st Books Library
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595408045
• ISBN 13: 9781595408044
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 108
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible