Wordstruck: A MemoirViking, 1989 - Всего страниц: 230 MacNeil's autobiography re-creates the world of his youth and the experiences that were opened up to him through his love of words. His delight and passion for the music and magic of language, have enabled MacNeil to transmute it into a work of art. Photos. |
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... child entranced by reading stumbles on that blissful ex- perience sooner or later . For this Canadian child in the thirties there was something more at work . Somehow the idea was planted in me that the English landscape had a spiritual ...
... child entranced by reading stumbles on that blissful ex- perience sooner or later . For this Canadian child in the thirties there was something more at work . Somehow the idea was planted in me that the English landscape had a spiritual ...
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... child's timidity in communicating in a world of adults . He aroused my sympathy for children being imposed upon , oppressive even when it is comic , like David's treatment by the gluttonous waiter or the space - hogging passengers on ...
... child's timidity in communicating in a world of adults . He aroused my sympathy for children being imposed upon , oppressive even when it is comic , like David's treatment by the gluttonous waiter or the space - hogging passengers on ...
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... children made me angrier still . They might as well have taken back the long pants . I moped around uncooperatively , feeling furious and sorry for myself , as I can see in the sulky photos taken then . Yet I still acted like a child ...
... children made me angrier still . They might as well have taken back the long pants . I moped around uncooperatively , feeling furious and sorry for myself , as I can see in the sulky photos taken then . Yet I still acted like a child ...
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