Patchwork (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Locker, Frederick

9781330694770: Patchwork (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330694775 ISBN 13: 9781330694770

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This literary compendium of anecdotes, quotations, and author profiles will appeal to casual readers and scholars alike. The author draws from a vast pool of written works, both classic and obscure, to explore themes of love, friendship, wit, and more. The author's approach avoids any imposition of a strict narrative, instead allowing these literary fragments to playfully riff off of one another. Readers will find witty musings and tales from an array of writers, including Charles Lamb, Dean Ramsay, William Hazlitt, and Dorothy Parker. This book's thoughtful and unique format makes it ideal for dipping into at any moment or savoring over an extended period. Its insights on human nature make this book a perfect gift or a welcome addition to any home library.

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Rese�a del editor

Excerpt from Patchwork

Such volumes are generally a miscellaneous gathering of fragments, which the editor fancies, in a vague sort of way, will be amusing or edifying to the general public. Now as my detached pieces were brought together with no idea of pleasing anybody but myself, I hope they will have a more individual flavour, and so, in some measure, escape this very serious charge.

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.

Rese�a del editor

Excerpt from Patchwork

I do not know whether a reference to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary would show that a Commonplace-book is a book kept by a commonplace sort of person, but I should not be surprised if the Doctor had thought so, and, certainly, there is a very general opinion that collections of such scraps are mighty poor reading: in sustained and coherent interest not a whit better than the Doctor's own lexicon.

Such volumes are generally a miscellaneous gathering of fragments, which the editor fancies, in a vague sort of way, will be amusing or edifying to the general public. Now as my detached pieces were brought together with no idea of pleasing anybody but myself, I hope they will have a more individual flavour, and so, in some measure, escape this very serious charge.

I fear that I may annoy some readers, for, though I have taken pains, no doubt I have sorely maltreated many of the extracts, picked up, as they were, from all sorts of people, in all kinds of places, from the corners of newspapers, and such like.

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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