My First Book
Author: last_name: Various
Language: English
Year: 0

This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in <i>The Idler</i> magazine, in which over twenty well-known authors write with characteristic style and humour of their experiences in writing their first book... and getting it published.<br /><br />Authors include Jerome K. Jerome, R. L. Stevenson, Bret Harte, Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Conan Doyle and Mary Braddon. Full of charm, humour and pathos, this book is like a fireside c