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... experience of the war and the Nazis , especially as it doesn't apply to my childhood alone . Things were no better when I became an adult . Up to the age of forty I knew nothing but a kind of dignified destitution . From the end of 1918 ...
... experience of the war and the Nazis , especially as it doesn't apply to my childhood alone . Things were no better when I became an adult . Up to the age of forty I knew nothing but a kind of dignified destitution . From the end of 1918 ...
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... experience as a writer , he recalls an episode in " childhood " when writing adventure stories . Wearying of the endless episodes of one particular adventure , he had abandoned it , taken a fresh sheet of paper , and written at the top ...
... experience as a writer , he recalls an episode in " childhood " when writing adventure stories . Wearying of the endless episodes of one particular adventure , he had abandoned it , taken a fresh sheet of paper , and written at the top ...
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... experience , the living memory of nations . ( “ But woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force . This is not merely interference with ' freedom of the press ' but the sealing up of a nation's heart , the ...
... experience , the living memory of nations . ( “ But woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force . This is not merely interference with ' freedom of the press ' but the sealing up of a nation's heart , the ...
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Acknowledgements | 21 |
1 OUT OF CHAOS AND SUFFERING | 25 |
Copyright | |
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