The Reminiscences of an Idler (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Wikoff, Henry) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Reminiscences of an Idler I have often been urged to write a book of Reminiscences by friends who knew that, during my career, I had come in contact with many persons of various kinds of celebrity. At times I was tempted to undertake it, but the difficulties of the task filled me with distrust and invariably forced me to abandon it. The dread of giving offence to persons living, or of wounding the susceptibilities of the descendants of those dead, were obstacles that appeared insuperable. It seemed to me, also, well-nigh impossible to make a mere series of personal sketches interesting to the general reader. At length it occurred to me that I might manage to blend an outline of the public events of the past forty years and upwards with random portraits of prominent individuals on both sides of the Atlantic in such a manner as to interest the public and thus secure an appreciation for my volume that purely personal recollections would fail to command. With this double aim I have written the present work, and I bespeak for it the indulgent consideration of my readers, as it was composed amid the interruptions of a busy social life, and often at considerable intervals of time. Without longer preface I commit my book, with "all its imperfections on its head," to its uncertain fate, and we have ancient authority that books, like men, have their special destinies: "Habent sua fata libelli." After due reflection I determined to throw my souvenirs into an autobiographical form, as affording greater freedom both as regards subject and style. 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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