The wrong box - Robert Louis Stevenson - Libros - Independently Published - 9798743015177 - 23 de abril de 2021
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The wrong box

How very little does the amateur, dwelling at home at ease, comprehend the labours and perils of the author, and, when he smilingly skims the surface of a work of fiction, how little does he consider the hours of toil, consultation of authorities, researches in the Bodleian, correspondence with learned and illegible Germans-in one word, the vast scaffolding that was first built up and then knocked down, to while away an hour for him in a railway train! Thus I might begin this tale with a biography of Tonti-birthplace, parentage, genius probably inherited from his mother, remarkable instance of precocity, etc-and a complete treatise on the system to which he bequeathed his name. The material is all beside me in a pigeon-hole, but I scorn to appear vainglorious. Tonti is dead, and I never saw anyone who even pretended to regret him; and, as for the tontine system, a word will suffice for all the purposes of this unvarnished narrative.

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Publicado 23 de abril de 2021
ISBN13 9798743015177
Editores Independently Published
Páginas 76
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   113 g
Lengua Inglés  

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