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The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil Edward G. Flight
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The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil
Edward G. Flight
The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil: Showing how the Horse-Shoe Came to be a Charm Against Witchcraft. "A man's worst wish for his enemy is that he might write a book," is a generally-received notion, of whose accuracy it is hoped there is no impertinence in suggesting a doubt. To reflect on having contributed, however slightly, to the innocent amusement of others, without giving pain to any, is alone an enjoyment well worth writing for. But when even so unpretending a trifle as this is, can, besides, bring around its obscure author fresh and valuable friendships, the hackneyed exclamation would appear more intelligible if rendered thus: "Oh, that my friend would write a book!" In former days, possibly, things may have been very different from what they now are. Haply, the literary highway may, heretofore, have been not particularly clean, choked with rubbish, badly drained, ill lighted, not always well paved even with good intentions, and beset with dangerous characters, bilious-looking Thugs, prowling about, ready to pounce upon, hocus, strangle, and pillage any new arrival. But all that is now changed. Now, the path of literature is all velvet and roses. The race of quacks and impostors has become as extinct, as are the saurian and the dodo; and every honest flourisher of the pen, instead of being tarred and feathered, is hailed as a welcome addition to "the united happy family"-of letters.
| メディア | 書籍 Paperback Book (ソフトカバーで背表紙を接着した本) |
| リリース済み | 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781612039053 |
| 出版社 | Spastic Cat Press |
| ページ数 | 28 |
| 寸法 | 152 × 229 × 2 mm · 49 g |
| 言語 | 英語 |