Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 53
... of his celebrity , was a confirmed and amiable bachelor , whose boyhood sweetheart had died untimely , leav- ing him no wish ever to love again ; but Payne , in his loneliness , fell in love with Mary Shelley . BOOKS AND BIPEDS 53.
... of his celebrity , was a confirmed and amiable bachelor , whose boyhood sweetheart had died untimely , leav- ing him no wish ever to love again ; but Payne , in his loneliness , fell in love with Mary Shelley . BOOKS AND BIPEDS 53.
Page 110
... died , last month , and had written some fifty books , at least half of them concerned with the imperishable Thorndyke . In Africa , at one time , Dr. Freeman was at- tached to an inland mission to Ashanti and Jaman , as medical officer ...
... died , last month , and had written some fifty books , at least half of them concerned with the imperishable Thorndyke . In Africa , at one time , Dr. Freeman was at- tached to an inland mission to Ashanti and Jaman , as medical officer ...
Page 119
... died , aged forty- seven , and became a legend and a cult . He may end -who knows ? as a solar myth . Lovecraft , a semi - invalid , a recluse , and an antiquarian , was until his death America's premier fantasist in the field of the ...
... died , aged forty- seven , and became a legend and a cult . He may end -who knows ? as a solar myth . Lovecraft , a semi - invalid , a recluse , and an antiquarian , was until his death America's premier fantasist in the field of the ...
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