Speaking of Books and LifeHolt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966 - 279 Seiten Contains 125 of the 900 columns the author produced for the New York Times. |
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... letters to his intimates they are plainly stated time and again . He frequently speaks of his mediocrity as a writer ( curiously enough he combined a tendency to platitude with a gift for phrase - making ) ; he confessed ignorance about ...
... letters to his intimates they are plainly stated time and again . He frequently speaks of his mediocrity as a writer ( curiously enough he combined a tendency to platitude with a gift for phrase - making ) ; he confessed ignorance about ...
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... letters for one that sounds tired and uninterested , and that , I am sure , is not be- cause Mr. Elting Morison , who has done a superb job of editing , deliberately excluded any letters of that character . As longevity is reckoned now ...
... letters for one that sounds tired and uninterested , and that , I am sure , is not be- cause Mr. Elting Morison , who has done a superb job of editing , deliberately excluded any letters of that character . As longevity is reckoned now ...
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... letters of Shakespeare ! They might prove disappointing , in view of the conventions that governed Elizabethan letter writing , for , as Lytton Strachey once pointed out , the prevailing tone of such letters of the period as we have is ...
... letters of Shakespeare ! They might prove disappointing , in view of the conventions that governed Elizabethan letter writing , for , as Lytton Strachey once pointed out , the prevailing tone of such letters of the period as we have is ...
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Foreword 37 | 3 |
Truth Isnt Always Stranger | 7 |
The Proper Study of Mankind | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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