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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... once , without meaningless meandering , into the world which we are temporarily to inhabit . Miss Bowen chose three examples of eminently successful open- ings , each of which in a different way sets the tone of the book from which it ...
... once , without meaningless meandering , into the world which we are temporarily to inhabit . Miss Bowen chose three examples of eminently successful open- ings , each of which in a different way sets the tone of the book from which it ...
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... once remarked that he had difficulty in writing about anything which did not interest him ; read- ing the letters , one wonders if anything did not . Actually , there were definitely insensitive areas even in that re- markably expansive ...
... once remarked that he had difficulty in writing about anything which did not interest him ; read- ing the letters , one wonders if anything did not . Actually , there were definitely insensitive areas even in that re- markably expansive ...
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... Once , going through a book dealer's catalogue , he found listed a first edition of his own book , and on the same page , at a considerably lower price , one of Thoreau's . He felt embarrassed . " I am not , ” he wrote , " a collector ...
... Once , going through a book dealer's catalogue , he found listed a first edition of his own book , and on the same page , at a considerably lower price , one of Thoreau's . He felt embarrassed . " I am not , ” he wrote , " a collector ...
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Foreword 37 | 3 |
Truth Isnt Always Stranger | 7 |
The Proper Study of Mankind | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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