Mr. Meeson's WillSpencer Blackett, 1888 - 286 Seiten Everybody who has any connection with Birmingham will be acquainted with the vast publishing establishment still known by the short title of "Meeson's" which is perhaps the most remarkable institution of the sort in Europe. |
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... writer of promise ; but somehow Meeson's had got him for its own , and turned him into a publisher's hack . " Quite so , sir , " he said humbly . " It is very bad- it is dreadful to think of Meeson's coming down to seven per cent ...
... writer of promise ; but somehow Meeson's had got him for its own , and turned him into a publisher's hack . " Quite so , sir , " he said humbly . " It is very bad- it is dreadful to think of Meeson's coming down to seven per cent ...
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... writing people are a little embarrassed . " Augusta winced , and Mr. Meeson , rising heavily from his chair , went to a large safe which stood near , and extracted from it a bundle of agreements . These he glanced at one by one till he ...
... writing people are a little embarrassed . " Augusta winced , and Mr. Meeson , rising heavily from his chair , went to a large safe which stood near , and extracted from it a bundle of agreements . These he glanced at one by one till he ...
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... write us another book . I am not going to deny that your work is good work - a little too deep , and not quite orthodox enough , perhaps ; but still good . I tested it myself , when it came to hand - which is a thing I don't often do ...
... write us another book . I am not going to deny that your work is good work - a little too deep , and not quite orthodox enough , perhaps ; but still good . I tested it myself , when it came to hand - which is a thing I don't often do ...
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... write you any more books . You have entrapped me . You have taken advan- tage of my ignorance and inexperience , and entrapped me so that for five years I shall be nothing but a slave to you , and , although I am now one of the most ...
... write you any more books . You have entrapped me . You have taken advan- tage of my ignorance and inexperience , and entrapped me so that for five years I shall be nothing but a slave to you , and , although I am now one of the most ...
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... writes for five years to come , at somewhere about a fourth of the usual rate of a successful author's pay - though ... writer like the rest of them - for Meeson's is a strictly commercial undertaking , you know , and . Meeson's public ...
... writes for five years to come , at somewhere about a fourth of the usual rate of a successful author's pay - though ... writer like the rest of them - for Meeson's is a strictly commercial undertaking , you know , and . Meeson's public ...
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