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Excerpt from English Men of Letters: Johnson, Defoe, Goldsmith, Scott, Thackeray The life of a man of letters is not as arule eventful. It may be rich in spiritual experiences, but it seldom is rich in active adventure. We ask his biographer to tell us what were his habits of composition, how he talked, how he bore himself in the discharge of his duties to his family, his neighbours and himself what were his beliefs on the great questions that concern humanity. We desire to know What he said and wrote, not what he did beyond the study and the domestic or the social circle. The chief external facts in his career are the dates of the publication of his successive books. Daniel Defoe is an exception to this rule. He was a man of action as well as a man of letters. The writing of the books which have given him immortality was little more than an accident in his career, a comparatively triżing and casual item in the total expenditure of his many-sided energy. He was nearly sixty when he wrote Robinson Crusoe. Before that event he had been a rebel, a merchant, a manu facturer, a writer of popular satires in verse, a bankrupt had acted as secretary to a public commission, been employed in secret services by five successive administrations, written innumerable pamphlets, and edited more than one newspaper. He had led, in fact, as adven turons a life as any of his own heroes, and had met quickly succeed ing difficulties with equally ready and fertile ingenuity. 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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• Plný název: English Men of Letters
• Podnázev: Johnson, Defoe, Goldsmith, Scott, Thackeray (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: John Morley
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 558
• EAN: 9781334518614
• ISBN: 1334518610
• ID: 15552042
• Nakladatelství: Forgotten Books
• Hmotnost: 739 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 29 mm
• Datum vydání: 04. December 2016

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