Books I Love: Being a Selection of 100 Titles for a Home Library, with Added Comment on Other Books, Many Authors and the Delights of Reading |
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... City . That must have been circa 1900 and it was the first time I ever had been inside a theater . As a boy of eight I was thrilled by it but I don't remember ever getting around to reading the book myself . my Edith Wharton was in ...
... City . That must have been circa 1900 and it was the first time I ever had been inside a theater . As a boy of eight I was thrilled by it but I don't remember ever getting around to reading the book myself . my Edith Wharton was in ...
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... City . So much for the ordinary autograph that is given to every Tom , Dick , or Harry who asks for it . But under the front cover of the fancy copy of Salt Water Poems & Ballads that came to me from Mac- millan in New York I have ...
... City . So much for the ordinary autograph that is given to every Tom , Dick , or Harry who asks for it . But under the front cover of the fancy copy of Salt Water Poems & Ballads that came to me from Mac- millan in New York I have ...
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... City , New York , and I have turned to it time and again for unending enjoyment . It's quite possible that Arnold Bennett never wrote an important novel , but in my opinion he never wrote a dull one . I had little opportunity to be a ...
... City , New York , and I have turned to it time and again for unending enjoyment . It's quite possible that Arnold Bennett never wrote an important novel , but in my opinion he never wrote a dull one . I had little opportunity to be a ...
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