My Life as an Author
My Life as an Author

My Life as an Author

My Life as an AuthorI have often been asked to prepare an autobiography, but my objections to...
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Author: Tupper, Martin Farquhar,1810-1889
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My Life as an Author

My Life as an Author

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My Life as an Author

My Life as an Author

$106.08 $53.01
Author: Tupper, Martin Farquhar,1810-1889
Format: eBook
Language: English
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My Life as an Author

I have often been asked to prepare an autobiography, but my objections to the task have ever been many and various. To one urgent appeal I sent this sonnet of refusal, which explains itself: In fact I always rejected the proposal (warned by recent volumes of pestilential reminiscences) and would none of it; not only from its apparent vainglory as[Pg 2] to the inevitable extenuation of one's own faults and failures in life, and the equally certain amplification of self-registered virtues and successes,but even still more from the mischief it might occasion from a petty record of commonplace troubles and trials, due to the "changes and chances of this mortal life," to the casual mention or omission of friends or foes, to the influence of circumstances and surroundings, and to other revelationswhether pleasant or the reverseof matters merely personal, and therefore more of a private than a public character. Indeed, so disquieted was I at the possible prospect of any one getting hold of a mass of manuscript in old days diligently compiled by myself from year to year in several small diaries, that I have long ago ruthlessly made a holocaust of the heap of such written self-memories, fearing their posthumous publication; and in this connection let me now add my express protest against the printing hereafter of any of my innumerable private letters to friends, or other MSS., unless they are strictly and merely of a literary nature. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 17558
Author: Tupper, Martin Farquhar
Release Date: Jan 20, 2006
Format: eBook
Language: English

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