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...I suppose it was environment that caused me to write these novels; but the mystery of it is, that when I left my native village I did not dream that imagination would lead me there again, for the simple annals of our village and domestic ways did not interest me; neither was I in the least studious. My years were passed in an attempt to have a good time, according to the desires and fancies of youth. Of literature and the literary life, I and my tribe knew nothing; we had not discovered "sermons in stones." Where then was the panorama of my stories and novels stored, that was unrolled in my new sphere? Of course, being moderately intelligent I read everything that came in my way, but merely for amusement. It had been laid up against me as a persistent fault, which was not profitable; I should peruse moral, and pious works, or take up sewing,--that interminable thing, "white seam," which filled the leisure moments of the right-minded. To the personnel of writers I gave little heed; it was the hero they created that charmed me, like Miss Porter's gallant Pole, Sobieski, or the ardent Ernest Maltravers, of Bulwer...

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• Celý názov: Morgesons
• Autor: Elizabeth Stoddard
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 272
• EAN: 9781605976846
• ISBN: 9781605976846
• ID: 08780564
• Nakladateľ: Book Jungle
• Hmotnosť: 490 g
• Rozmery: 232 × 193 × 15 mm
• Dátum vydania: 08. May 2008

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