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... Liza of Lambeth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which had attracted a good deal of attention ...
... Liza of Lambeth . It was accepted by the first publisher to whom I sent it . For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which had attracted a good deal of attention ...
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... Liza of Lambeth is still readable , but any merit it may have is due to the luck I had in being , by my work as a medical student , thrown into contact with a side of life that at that time had been little exploited by novelists ...
... Liza of Lambeth is still readable , but any merit it may have is due to the luck I had in being , by my work as a medical student , thrown into contact with a side of life that at that time had been little exploited by novelists ...
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... Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I was ambitious . I had a feeling , I do not know where I got it , that you must not pursue a success , but fly from it ; and I had learnt from the French to set no great store on ...
... Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I was ambitious . I had a feeling , I do not know where I got it , that you must not pursue a success , but fly from it ; and I had learnt from the French to set no great store on ...
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