Taken Alive: And Other Stories : with an AutobiographyDodd, Mead,, 1889 - 375 pages |
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... interest to the general public , and I was distinctly conscious of a certain sense of awkwardness in writing about myself at all . The question , Why should I ? always con- fronted me . When this request was again repeated early in the ...
... interest to the general public , and I was distinctly conscious of a certain sense of awkwardness in writing about myself at all . The question , Why should I ? always con- fronted me . When this request was again repeated early in the ...
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... interest . If one could address this circle of friends only , the embarrassment attendant on a certain amount of egotism would be banished by the assurance of sympathetic regard . Since , from the nature of circumstances , this is im ...
... interest . If one could address this circle of friends only , the embarrassment attendant on a certain amount of egotism would be banished by the assurance of sympathetic regard . Since , from the nature of circumstances , this is im ...
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... interest in his garden and farm never flagged , thus proving that in them is to be found a pleasure which does not pall with age . During the last sum- mer of his life , when in his eighty - seventh year , he had the de- light of a ...
... interest in his garden and farm never flagged , thus proving that in them is to be found a pleasure which does not pall with age . During the last sum- mer of his life , when in his eighty - seventh year , he had the de- light of a ...
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... interest as to its reception . I had none of the confidence resulting from the gradual testing of one's power or from asso- ciation with literary people , and I also was aware that when 66 published , a book was far away from the 20 ...
... interest as to its reception . I had none of the confidence resulting from the gradual testing of one's power or from asso- ciation with literary people , and I also was aware that when 66 published , a book was far away from the 20 ...
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... interest us ? As an author , I have felt that my only chance of gaining and keep- ing the attention of men and women was to know , to understand them , to feel with and for them in what constituted their life . Failing to do this , why ...
... interest us ? As an author , I have felt that my only chance of gaining and keep- ing the attention of men and women was to know , to understand them , to feel with and for them in what constituted their life . Failing to do this , why ...
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