The Feast of St. Friend

Arnold Bennett

PREFACE TO THIS EDITION This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book.

Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett To W. W. K. PREFACE TO THIS EDITION In the autumn of 1903 I used to dine frequently in a restaurant in the Rue de Clichy, Paris.

Arnold Bennett

The Duty of It 53 The Adventure of It 59 The Two Ways of It 65 VI...

Arnold Bennett

CHAPTER I THE NEW LODGING I In the pupils' room of the offices of Lucas & Enwright, architects, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, George Edwin Cannon, an articled pupil, leaned over a large drawing-b...

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.