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- Author: John Buchan
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 240
- ISBN-10: 1544083971
- ISBN-13: 9781544083971
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment - in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half-hours between graver tasks; and it bears, I fear, the mark of its gipsy begetting. But it has amused me to write, and I shall be well repaid if it amuses you - and a few others - to read. Let no man or woman call its events improbable. The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism. Things unimagined before happen daily to our friends by sea and land. The one chance in a thousand is habitually taken, and as often as not succeeds. Coincidence, like some new Briareus, stretches a hundred long arms hourly across the earth.
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- Author: John Buchan
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2017
- Pages: 240
- ISBN-10: 1544083971
- ISBN-13: 9781544083971
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment - in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half-hours between graver tasks; and it bears, I fear, the mark of its gipsy begetting. But it has amused me to write, and I shall be well repaid if it amuses you - and a few others - to read. Let no man or woman call its events improbable. The war has driven that word from our vocabulary, and melodrama has become the prosiest realism. Things unimagined before happen daily to our friends by sea and land. The one chance in a thousand is habitually taken, and as often as not succeeds. Coincidence, like some new Briareus, stretches a hundred long arms hourly across the earth.
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