Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
THE TERROR THE BOWMEN DR. STIGGINS THE GREAT RETURN HIEROGLYPHICS THE HOUSE OF SOULS Including THE GREAT GOD PAN and THE THREE IMPOSTORS THE HILL OF DREAMS THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY WAR AND THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THE SECRET GLORY FAR OFF THINGS
THE TERROR THE BOWMEN DR. STIGGINS THE GREAT RETURN HIEROGLYPHICS THE HOUSE OF SOULS Including THE GREAT GOD PAN and THE THREE IMPOSTORS THE HILL OF DREAMS THE CHRONICLE OF CLEM...
2. Part 2Well; there I laboured in the Catherine Street garret amidst all this, and much more than this. Down below were the publishing offices of old Mr. Vizetelly, who was issuing Engl...
3. Part 3A few days ago His Grace did take me aside into his cabinet, and looking kindly upon me (though some call him a stern and awful noble) said: “Why, Master Leolinus, you look but...
4. Part 4But then there came a difficulty. I discovered a certain property in treacle, which, so far as I know, is not recorded in scientific text-books. The matter of the work--to use t...
5. Part 5And I have always been glad that I made this business-like arrangement. By it I was enabled to live for eleven or twelve years under pleasant and humane conditions. Not in luxur...
6. Part 6And so you may discourse of the pistils and stamens of the lilies of the field, and divide the fowls of the air into genera and species and sub-species and count the teeth of Ke...
7. Part 7And as I was saying, as with the taverns, so with the papers. When I wrote a little for them, in 1890 or thereabouts, it was allowable to assume a certain amount of literacy, a...
8. Part 8But it really doesn’t matter. And, further, I have a suspicion that it is often much more interesting “behind” than “in front.” I have seen some very fine theatrical storms in m...
9. Part 9All this, of course, is mere philosophic A B C, and if I thought this book likely to penetrate into philosophic circles I should apologise for a clumsy rehash of Berkeley’s irre...
10. Part 10And beyond all this, beyond these experiences in which things of the body and things of the spirit were mingled, there was a better world of which I saw the verges. There was no...
11. Part 11I have wondered at times why there is no good novel of the stage. But a little consideration shews that there can be no such thing. George Moore wrote long ago a clever book cal...
12. Part 12I thought of all that, and I tried to render it as best I could. And I only mention this trivial nonsense because, to the best of my belief, it is the only instance in which I h...