A Childhood (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A ChildhoodI DO not know the author of this book and I have as a rule a strong feeling against books that tell no continuous story. Yet it has interested me greatly both because of the skill and faithfulness with which the scattered memories are recorded and because it.somehow reads like the proem to something sterner and sadder. Memories of child hood draw most of their magic from some incom pleteness of this sort. They seem like the random play of eddies in a wide river that will hereafter gather to a cataract significant because greater things are coming and pathetic because they give no sign what those greater things will be. The randomness of childhood is well represented here also its sense of a mysterious life in lifeless things its terrors and its heartlessness and the eternal mockery of the poor grown-ups in the back ground vexing their hearts with love and care for the children and succeeding only in becoming a well-recognized nuisance useful as a protection against still greater calamities though always checking and marring the current of true life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Paperback: 116 pages

Publisher: Forgotten Books (January 19 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1330650581

ISBN-13: 978-1330650585

Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces