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Page 145
... novel I could submit to him . This was so great an encouragement that I immediately sat down and wrote one . Since I was working at the hospital all day I could only write in the evening . I used to get home soon after six , read my ...
... novel I could submit to him . This was so great an encouragement that I immediately sat down and wrote one . Since I was working at the hospital all day I could only write in the evening . I used to get home soon after six , read my ...
Page 148
... novel of a very different sort . Fisher Unwin must have been dismayed when he received it . It was a novel set in Italy during the Renaissance and it was founded on a story I had read in Machiavelli's History of Florence . I wrote it ...
... novel of a very different sort . Fisher Unwin must have been dismayed when he received it . It was a novel set in Italy during the Renaissance and it was founded on a story I had read in Machiavelli's History of Florence . I wrote it ...
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... novel . I knew it would be a long one and I wanted to be undisturbed , so I refused the contracts managers were anxious to give me and temporarily retired from the stage . I had written a novel on the same themes when , after taking my ...
... novel . I knew it would be a long one and I wanted to be undisturbed , so I refused the contracts managers were anxious to give me and temporarily retired from the stage . I had written a novel on the same themes when , after taking my ...
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