Excerpt from Phantom: A Novel I just simply write down everything that passes through my mind. And if I should succeed in making a book, why shouldn't I be able to write a second, a third? Then I should be an author. In the most nat ural way I should then have found my desired avocation. This house, which my father-in-law bought six months ago, together with the shop, did once belong to the widow of such a person. Her name was Mrs. Wander. Wander was a school master who had had to give Up his position on account of ...
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Excerpt from Phantom: A Novel I just simply write down everything that passes through my mind. And if I should succeed in making a book, why shouldn't I be able to write a second, a third? Then I should be an author. In the most nat ural way I should then have found my desired avocation. This house, which my father-in-law bought six months ago, together with the shop, did once belong to the widow of such a person. Her name was Mrs. Wander. Wander was a school master who had had to give Up his position on account of certain views. After long wander ings he found this asylum, like me, and had a livelihood in it. His life-work, which he may have begun and completed in this very room, is a German dictionary of proverbs in five volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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