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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date August 15, 2015
Pages 356
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781516894383
ISBN-10 1516894383
Dimensions 0.81 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $12.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: I want very much to set down my thoughts and my experiences of life. I want to do so now that I have come to middle age and now that my attitudes are all defined and my personal drama worked out I feel that the toil of writing and reconsideration may help to clear and fix many things that remain a little uncertain in my thoughts because they have never been fully stated, and I want to discover any lurking inconsistencies and unsuspected gaps. And I have a story. I have lived through things that have searched me. I want to tell that story as well as I can while I am still a clear-headed and active man, and while many details that may presently become blurred and altered are still rawly fresh in my mind. And to one person in particular do I wish to think I am writing, and that is to you, my only son. I want to write my story not indeed to the child you are now, but to the man you are going to be. You are half[Pg 2] my blood and temperamentally altogether mine. A day will come when you will realize this, and want to know how life has gone with me, and then it may be altogether too late for me to answer your enquiries. I may have become inaccessible as old people are sometimes inaccessible. And so I think of leaving this book for you—at any rate, I shall write it as if I meant to leave it for you. Afterwards I can consider whether I will indeed leave it....

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Paperback
Book cover for 9781483702940 Book cover for 9781516894383 Book cover for 9781530210558
 
from Createspace Independent Pub (February 24, 2016)
9781530210558 | details & prices | 302 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.69 in. | List price $11.50
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from Createspace Independent Pub (August 15, 2015)
9781516894383 | details & prices | 356 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.81 in. | List price $12.95
This edition also contains The Passionate Friends
About: I want very much to set down my thoughts and my experiences of life.
from Gardners Books (August 1, 2013)
9781483702940 | details & prices | 188 pages | List price $14.35
About: The Passionate Friends is written as if addressed to Stephen Stratton's eldest son, who is presently on the verge of adolescence.

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