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A Christmas gift from dear friend U. aka T.A. Thanks a lot!!!
Page 12 - Preface
Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater — to name the first that come to mind. Others are alive, and though perhaps as illustrious in their own way, are less formidabl ...more
Page 12 - Preface
Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater — to name the first that come to mind. Others are alive, and though perhaps as illustrious in their own way, are less formidabl ...more
One of Woolf's minor works, but still very appealing. It's a slow starter because of the period of the story then since the author is writing in the style of the time-- I'll say no more!
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Loved most of it. The end left a bit to be desired, simply because I wasn't exactly sure what happened.
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