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Title: The Pocket George Borrow
Author: George Borrow
Release Date: November 4, 2004 [eBook #13957]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1912 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE POCKET GEORGE BORROW
PASSAGES CHOSEN FROM THE WORKS OF BORROW
BY EDWARD THOMAS
To my brother Julian.
NOTE
When a man has read once, or twice, or three times, through Borrow's
books, he will probably dip into them here and there at intervals. By so
doing he gradually makes his own anthology; but it may be that he will
yet find place for another man's, if it has no pretension to completeness
or authority, and will go into his pocket. Borrow is not a pithy writer,
nor is he best when sententious; the following passages are, therefore,
somewhat longer than is usual in this series of Anthologies. Even so,
many of the best things in his books, especially from Wild Wales, have
had to be omitted, because they are longer still. But this selection
aims only at giving strangers to Borrow an invitation or challenge, and
lovers a few sprigs of his heather for a keepsake.
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