The Giant's Robe. F. Anstey
Читать онлайн.| Название | The Giant's Robe |
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| Автор произведения | F. Anstey |
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| isbn | 4064066176167 |
F. Anstey
The Giant's Robe
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066176167
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
IT has been my intention from the first to take this opportunity of stating that, if I am indebted to any previous work for the central idea of a stolen manuscript, such obligation should be ascribed to a short tale, published some time ago in one of the Christmas numbers—the only story upon the subject which I have read at present.
It was the story of a German student who, having found in the library of his university an old scientific manuscript, by a writer long since dead and forgotten, produced it as his own; and it is so probable that the recollection of this incident became quite unconsciously the germ of the present book that, although the matter is not of general importance, I feel it only fair to mention it here.
I trust, nevertheless, that it is not necessary to insist upon any claim to the average degree of originality; for if the book does not bear the traces of honest and independent work, that is a defect which is scarcely likely to be removed by the most eloquent and argumentative of prefaces.
THE GIANT'S ROBE.