Books on the Table (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Gosse, Edmund) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Books on the Table With the tip of the feather of my quill between my lips, I sit wondering how I am to recommend these miniature monographs. "Here they are, my forty men and women," but what diminutive creatures, to be sure! They are a selection from the ten-minute sermons which, for some time past, I have been delivering every week to the congregation of the Sunday Times. I make no apology for their brevity, since that was inevitable. Books, very properly, have to be satisfied with what crumbs of space may fall from the platters of Football and the League of Nations. If Literature were bigger, Golf would have to be less bulky, and how dreadful that would be! The best of newspapers is in its physical essence ephemeral, and its substance is like breath upon glass. If we miss it for a week, it is lost for ever, and lost are all the labour and solicitude of the artist. In any case, therefore, I must have clung to some of these pygmy children of my pen, but (positively) quite a number of their original auditors have asked to have them reprinted. It amuses me to revive the old rubric - "published by request of friends"; and I respond with alacrity, lest the demand should be withdrawn. If the complaint be made, on turning over these pages, that the general tone is "personal," again I cannot find an apology, except this, that the most divergent themes are comfortably studied only where there is consistency in their treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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