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Excerpt from The Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 2 Sterne was so nettled that he threw the manu script into the fire. Luckily Mr. Croft so the story goes rescued the scorched papers from the żames. Sterne persevered with his work, though none of his friends except Croft, seem to have found much in it. Like most men who have written books out of the common run, Sterne had difficulties in getting a publisher. The booksellers at York would not have anything to say to it, nor would they offer any price for it. It was next declined by Dodsley, the London pub lisher, to whom Sterne evidently sent some specimen pages. After these rebuffs, Sterne went over his manuscript, removing or soften ing the local satire, and adding about a hundred and fifty pages. Steme's friends now changed their opinion of his book. By fall he could write to Dodsley that there was a strong interest formed and forming in its behalf. It was now passed about that the Vicar of Sutton was writing an extraordinary book. A Mr. Lee, a gentleman of York, and a bachelor of a liberal turn of mind, lent him one hundred pounds towards its publica tion; and with this aid, the first two volumes of. 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: The Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
• Autor: Laurence Sterne
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 338
• EAN: 9780243526765
• ISBN: 0243526768
• ID: 15992898
• Nakladatelství: Forgotten Books
• Hmotnost: 455 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Datum vydání: 27. February 2017

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