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Excerpt from The Real Diary of a Real Boy
The examination of this copy-book lasted the rest of the day, and it was read with the peculiar pleasure one experiences in reviewing some of the events of a happy boyhood.
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“In his own time he was a living legend – as lawyer, judge, musician, and especially, as author....An estimated 20,000 persons witnessed the parade that concluded the 1938 celebration, one in which they saw carried aloft a ‘huge copy’ of Shute’s best-loved work, ‘The Real Diary of a Real Boy,’ a work so beloved that it went into at least seventeen editions in his lifetime and at least three more after it (and so beloved that he wrote not one but several sequels to it).” -Malcolm Freiberg, -Massachusetts Historical Society