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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 117
... novel calls surely for a profound experience of men to create living people out of those persons who with their different manners and different notions at first sight seem so alien to us ; and to recreate the past needs not only a vast ...
... novel calls surely for a profound experience of men to create living people out of those persons who with their different manners and different notions at first sight seem so alien to us ; and to recreate the past needs not only a vast ...
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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 subject of ...
... 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 subject of ...
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