Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Volumes 1 and 2 – books in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. 1920 first edition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> ONCE in a roomfull of people someone suddenly said: ? I wonder what becomes of all the delightful and interesting children one has known?’ Startled by this remark we began discussing it and came to the conclusion that nearly all children are interesting and delightful just as every coin fresh from the Mint has a certain charm-but unfortunately as time goes on the original design loses its sharpness. Then someone else went on to say that if faithfully written the memoirs of any child would be good reading. It was in this spirit that to wile away a winter of forced inactivity I began to write mine having no readers in view at the moment but one or two amiably inquisitive friends. Early memoirs are necessarily egoistic for a child’s recollections are strung together on the thread of its own little personality. Nor among such petty joys and sorrows triumphs and humiliations can much picking and choosing be done. What you remember was evidently important in your own eyes and there is no other guide to follow. If anyone should deem the result in this case of general interest it will be because like the immortal ‘Diary of a Nobody the daily life described in the first part of these chronicles might be that of any English family in analogous circumstances and my own confessions the autobiography of any child. (MP)