The Delicious Vice
Young Ewing Allison
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Description
Young E. Allison subtitled The Delicious Vice pipe dreams and fond adventures of an habitual novel-reader among some great books and their people. The second edition, revised with new material, came from the Prairieland Publishing Company of Chicago in 1918. The pieces first ran in the Louisville Courier-Journal. The first edition came from Burrows Brothers of Cleveland in 1907.
The opening rhapsody on novel reading starts with Thomas Moore turning a sigh into marketable copy at about the age of forty. At forty, Allison argues, the world has shrunk, time is no longer than a kite string, and all that can happen to a man, death aside, has happened. Then comes the day when the habitual novel reader looks back in anguish and wishes he hadn't, asking what he might have done instead.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Young Ewing Allison |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 175 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |