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 105
... novels , some of them pitting him against a counterfeit and equally popular Raf- fles . In an Armenian novel , the ... novel , The Old Age of Monsieur Lecoq . By a curious coincidence , D'Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac were jointly ...
... novels , some of them pitting him against a counterfeit and equally popular Raf- fles . In an Armenian novel , the ... novel , The Old Age of Monsieur Lecoq . By a curious coincidence , D'Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac were jointly ...
Page 186
... novel that his friends apparently believed him capable of writing . He probably thought something of the sort himself . Every writer of short fictions hopes some day to find time to write the Great American Novel and ration- alizes his ...
... novel that his friends apparently believed him capable of writing . He probably thought something of the sort himself . Every writer of short fictions hopes some day to find time to write the Great American Novel and ration- alizes his ...
Page 209
... novel of the period just before the present war , the other evening , an ordinary story about ordinary persons going their ordinary ways , I found the tale infinitely nostalgic , of course ; but also it was possessed of all the unreal ...
... novel of the period just before the present war , the other evening , an ordinary story about ordinary persons going their ordinary ways , I found the tale infinitely nostalgic , of course ; but also it was possessed of all the unreal ...
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