An Inland Voyage - Robert Louis Stevenson - Bücher - 1st World Library - Literary Society - 9781595405012 - 1. September 2004
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An Inland Voyage

Robert Louis Stevenson

An Inland Voyage

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary. ORG - - To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in his preface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour. It is best, in such circumstances, to represent a delicate shade of manner between humility and superiority: as if the book had been written by some one else, and you had merely run over it and inserted what was good. But for my part I have not yet learned the trick to that perfection; I am not yet able to dissemble the warmth of my sentiments towards a reader; and if I meet him on the threshold, it is to invite him in with country cordiality.


140 pages

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 1. September 2004
ISBN13 9781595405012
Verlag 1st World Library - Literary Society
Seitenanzahl 140
Maße 215 × 139 × 12 mm   ·   196 g
Sprache Englisch  
Redakteur 1st World Library

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