Reminiscences of a Voyage Around the World (Classic Reprint)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Davis, R. C.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Voyage Around the World Many young aspirants for literary honors represent their first literary productions as accidents, or occurrences as inevitable as fate. If you believe what they tell, you will think they were but faintly conscious of any voluntary act. They felt (they say) the throes of intellectual travail; sympathising friends called in the accoucheur (an accommodating publisher); then followed an interval of blank oblivion, after which they languidly raised themselves, and beheld, with emotions of profound surprise, the result, viz.: a 12 mo, muslin covered volume! All this is a diffuse way of presenting a view of the matter that "Wemmick" (a character of Dickens, remarkable for his idolatry of "portable property," and the numerous accidents that befel him,) would have presented in the single exclamation, "Halloo, here´s a book!" This little volume was produced in no such miraculous way. It was written for the purpose of increasing, to something like an adequate amount, an insufficient salary. The labor was often done in weariness and depression. It is not expected that mature minds will find, either in the style or the matter, much to interest or instruct them. But it is hoped that for boys, this narrative of youthful experience, on the "great ocean," and in "distant lands," will possess interest, and afford instruction. 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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