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Title: Books Fatal to Their Authors
Author : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Release Date : January 01, 1930
Genre: Literary Criticism,Books,Fiction & Literature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 142 KB

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To record the woes of authors and to discourse de libris fatalibus seems deliberately to court the displeasure of that fickle mistress who presides over the destinies of writers and their works. Fortune awaits the aspiring scribe with many wiles, and oft treats him sorely. If she enrich any, it is but to make them subject of her sport. If she raise others, it is but to pleasure herself with their ruins.