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Excerpt from Gossip of the Caribbees: Sketches of Anglo-West-Indian LifeI have endeavored in the following sketches to give as accurate an idea as possible of social life in Her Majesty's West Indian dominions, and if I have hurt the patriotic sensibilities of my compatriots, I heartily crave their pardon. Barbados and the adjacent colonies are too dear to me to wilfully cast stones at their institutions. Nowhere in the empire will be found a ...
Excerpt from Gossip of the Caribbees: Sketches of Anglo-West-Indian LifeI have endeavored in the following sketches to give as accurate an idea as possible of social life in Her Majesty's West Indian dominions, and if I have hurt the patriotic sensibilities of my compatriots, I heartily crave their pardon. Barbados and the adjacent colonies are too dear to me to wilfully cast stones at their institutions. Nowhere in the empire will be found a ...
Excerpt from A Dazzling ReprobateThe pestilential forests of satire are as full of them as the Andes with unexplored wealth. Your sober novelist, like the long-established merchant, looks askance at any attempt to develop such realms. They smell of wild cat. 80 their exploitation is left to dare-devil, adventurous, and consequently questionable pioneers who, if they come back from the frontiers of literature with fortune, are belauded and, if ...
Excerpt from A Dazzling Reprobate
The pestilential forests of satire are as full of them as the Andes with unexplored wealth. Your sober novelist, like the long-established merchant, looks askance at any attempt to develop such realms. They smell of wild cat. 80 their exploitation is left to dare-devil, adventurous, and consequently questionable pioneers who, if they come back from the frontiers of literature with fortune, are belauded and, i...
bTitle:/b Gossip of the Caribbees. Sketches of Anglo-West-Indian Life.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around ...
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