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Page 161
... novel I wrote was called Liza of Lam- beth . 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 ...
... novel I wrote was called Liza of Lam- beth . 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 ...
Page 211
... novel you are no longer held . The moral is that you must have the courage to throw your facts overboard if they fail to comply with the logic of your character . I do not know how Stendhal could have ended his novel ; but I think it ...
... novel you are no longer held . The moral is that you must have the courage to throw your facts overboard if they fail to comply with the logic of your character . I do not know how Stendhal could have ended his novel ; but I think it ...
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... novel . But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more sig- nificant and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers ...
... novel . But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more sig- nificant and so offered a better subject of discourse than the novel of character or adventure . The intelligent critics , the more serious novel read- ers ...
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