THE SUMMING UP1938 |
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Page 10
... reader to enter upon with me . There are matters on which I am content to maintain my privacy . No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the ...
... reader to enter upon with me . There are matters on which I am content to maintain my privacy . No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the ...
Page 12
... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
Page 222
... reader's interest . That is possibly the most important thing in fiction , for it is by direction of interest that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the ...
... reader's interest . That is possibly the most important thing in fiction , for it is by direction of interest that the author carries the reader along from page to page and it is by direction of interest that he induces in him the ...
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