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ABOUT the middle of the last century, at eight o'clock in the evening, in a large but poor apartment, a man was slumbering on a rough couch. His rusty and worn suit of black was of a piece with his uncarpeted room, the deal table of home manufacture, and its slim unsnuffed candle. The man was Triplet, scene painter, actor and writer of sanguinary plays, in which what ought to be, viz., truth, plot, situation and dialogue, were not; and what ought not to be, were-scilicet, small talk, big talk, fops, ruffians, and ghosts. His three mediocrities fell so short of one talent that he was sometimes impransus.
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Hearst, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, was editor-in-chief of the Hearst newspapers and an heir to the publishing empire established by his father until his death in 1993.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1502494027
- ISBN 13 9781502494023
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages106
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