The Man Of The World
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781419171581
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary
First sentence: Though the world is but little concerned to know, in what situation the author of any performance that is offered to its perusal may be, yet I believe it is generally solicitous to learn some circumstances relating to him: for my own part, I have always experienced this desire in myself; and read the advertisement at the beginning, and the postscript at the end of a book, if they contain any information of that sort, with a kind of melancholy inquietude about the fate of him, whose company, as it were, I have passed some harmless hours, and whose sentiments have been unbosomed to me with the openness of a friend.