Without Prejudice
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Description
Israel Zangwill gathers miscellaneous work from four or five years, mostly first printed month by month in the Pall Mall Magazine, under the title Without Prejudice. He has left out pieces that hang on other people's books, plays, or pictures, seeking unity in a set that can stand alone. The result is a book of essays and fancies, witty, digressive, and fond of turning a familiar saying on its head.
Topsy turveydom is not so easy as it looks, he warns, for the trouble lies not in inverting but in finding what to invert. Language holds ancient saws, but only a real humourist knows which can stand on its head without falling. Zangwill writes on travel, morals, and modern life with the same trick, asking readers to feel their surroundings again rather than rush past them. The essays reward a slow, amused attention.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 752 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |