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Confessions of a Young Man

Confessions of a Young Man

Moore, George

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1544078463
ISBN13: 9781544078465
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 25 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dear little book, what shall I say about thee? Belated offspring of mine, out of print for twenty years, what shall I say in praise of thee? For twenty years I have only seen thee in French, and in this English text thou comest to me like an old love, at once a surprise and a recollection. Dear little book, I would say nothing about thee if I could help it, but a publisher pleads, and No is a churlish word. So for him I will say that I like thy prattle; that while travelling in a railway carriage on my way to the country of Esther Waters, I passed my station by, and had to hire a carriage and drive across the downs. Like a learned Abbé I delighted in the confessions of this young man, a naïf young man, a little vicious in his naïveté, who says that his soul must have been dipped in Lethe so deeply that he came into the world without remembrance of previous existence. He can find no other explanation for the fact that the world always seems to him more new, more wonderful than it did to anyone he ever met on his faring; every wayside acquaintance seemed old to this amazing young man, and himself seemed to himself the only young thing in the world. Am I imitating the style of these early writings?

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