The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 63
... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
Page 80
... excited by the discovery , from a statue in the market - place , that Montdidier was the birthplace of Parmentier , who introduced the potato into France . Anyhow as we idled over our coffee and liqueurs I was moved to give an acute and ...
... excited by the discovery , from a statue in the market - place , that Montdidier was the birthplace of Parmentier , who introduced the potato into France . Anyhow as we idled over our coffee and liqueurs I was moved to give an acute and ...
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... excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham ...
... excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham ...
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