Word: budden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...count on the fingers of one hand. He likes comfort, order, a settled family life. He was so fond of his dog Bashan that he wrote a biography of him (A Man-and His Dog, 1919). A slow worker, it took him two and a half years to write Budden-brooks, twelve years for The Magic Mountain, some ten years for the first part of Jacob and His Brothers. Because he is mildly superstitious, the round numbers that have partitioned his life please his "sense of mathematical clarity." "It was midday when I came into the world; my 50 years...
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