Excerpt from The Whitehead Boy: A Play in Three Acts To do so was strong, because it had been done by one of his contemporaries in a novel which was published at the same time, and it would have provided a natural d???nouement to his story. But in a foreword he explained his scruples. The combining of real events with imaginary persons seemed likely to lead readers to combine real persons with imaginary events in the book, a result which would offend the living and be unjust to the dead. Thus this work, which is an ...
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Excerpt from The Whitehead Boy: A Play in Three Acts To do so was strong, because it had been done by one of his contemporaries in a novel which was published at the same time, and it would have provided a natural d???nouement to his story. But in a foreword he explained his scruples. The combining of real events with imaginary persons seemed likely to lead readers to combine real persons with imaginary events in the book, a result which would offend the living and be unjust to the dead. Thus this work, which is an imaginative reconstruction of what others reported photographically, was deprived by the author's delicacy of a powerful extraneous aid to popular success. 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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