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Page 114
... NOVEL I wrote was called 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 noyels which had attracted a ...
... NOVEL I wrote was called 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 noyels which had attracted a ...
Page 149
... novel you are no longer held . The moral is that you must have the cour- age to throw your facts overboard if they fail to comply with the logic of your character . I do not know how Stend- hal could have ended his novel ; but I think ...
... novel you are no longer held . The moral is that you must have the cour- age to throw your facts overboard if they fail to comply with the logic of your character . I do not know how Stend- hal could have ended his novel ; but I think ...
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... novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing ... novel . But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more significant and so offered a better ...
... novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemination of ideas and a good many novelists were willing ... novel . But it is evident that while its vogue lasted it seemed much more significant and so offered a better ...
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