# An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages

Author: Tupper, Martin Farquhar, 1810-1889

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19386

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=An+Author%27s+Mind+%3A+The+Book+of+Title-pages+Tupper&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The writer of this strange book (a particular friend of mine) came to me a few mornings ago with a very happy face and a very blotty manuscript. "Congratulate me," he began, "on having dispersed an armada of head-aches hitherto invincible, on having exorcised my brain of its legionary spectres, and brushed away the swarming thoughts that used to persecute my solitude; I can now lie down as calmly as the lamb, and rise as gayly as the lark; instead of a writhing Laocoon, my just-found Harlequin's wand has changed me into infant Hercules brandishing his strangled snakes; I have mowed, for the nonce, the docks, mallows, hogweed, and wild-parsley of my rank field, and its smooth green carpet...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-author-s-mind-the-book-of-title-pages-19386/chapters/15/index.md)