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...quite make his own tally." Once the family lived for ten days on bread and potatoes. Once Marx could not leave the house because he had no clothes. Once, after a publisher had agreed to take one of his books, he could not raise money enough to mail the manuscript. In five years three of the children died, Marx suffered from piles, boils, indigestion, liver trouble. His wife broke down after the death of her favorite son. In this, as in most crises, Engels saved them. Determining to make money, Engels became a manufacturer in Manchester, a member...
...authenticity only because the story of its discovery seemed too pat to be believed. After Napoleon's fall Caulaincourt lived in retirement, was stung to reply when rivals published memoirs that discredited him. His family withheld his exposures, fearing libel, until 1914. During the German invasion the manuscript was walled up in the Caulaincourt Chateau, lost when the chateau was blown up, found in 1933 when a garbled copy of the original was already going to press. Readers whose suspicions are awakened by such remarkable coincidences may be made more doubtful by the narrative speed and fluency...
...Manuscript Instrumental Piece dated...
...debt, he dreaded his reunion with his fat, tactless mother who had taunted him about his lameness; he was oppressed by thoughts of living in Newstead, the chill, half-ruined manor that was haunted with memories of the crimes of his wild ancestors. He carried with him the manuscript of Childe Harold but expected nothing from that poem. On Aug. 1, his mother died. Next day one of his dearest friends was drowned. On Aug. 12, in the depths of despondency, he composed his "outrageous" will that carried its explicit provision for the "disposal of his carcass." He slept...
First editions of practically all Stevenson's works from "Virginibus Puerisque" to "An Apology for Idlers" are abundant. Particularly interesting is the complete manuscript of "David Balfour," written in the fine, legible hand of the author with his own corrections. The copy is remarkably clean. Stevenson, after changing the name of the novel to "Katriona" and then to "Catriona," finally sent it to the press with the latter title, though it is known today more by the original name than the other two. The first illustrated edition of "Treasure Island" is no less interesting than of "Kidnapped," which is dedicated...