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A voice from the attic / compiled by W.C. Lougheed for the Strathy Language Unit

 
dc.contributor Fee, Margery Strathy Language Unit Queen's U
dc.contributor.author Davies, Robertson, 1913-
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-21T16:24:30Z
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dc.date.created 1960
dc.date.issued 1991-09-09
dc.identifier ota:0661
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0661
dc.description.abstract In English Title from title page of source text New Canadian library ; 83
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dc.language English
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Addresses -- Canada -- 20th century
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dc.title A voice from the attic / compiled by W.C. Lougheed for the Strathy Language Unit
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otaterms.date.range 1900-1999

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<2Robertson Davies>2
<2A Voice From The Attic>2
                       <2Prologue>2

A VOICE, certainly--any book is a voice--but why from the
Attic?
  In this book I want to comment and digress on some
aspects of the world of books today, by no means always
seriously and certainly not with any desire to impose my
taste on anyone; rather, I expose my taste hoping that it may
provide diversion for the reader. I do this as one who has,
for twenty years, reviewed books for a living (or part of a
living, for I never found that it provided a whole one) and
as one who has given hard knocks as a reviewer and taken
them as an author. Because I am a Canadian, my outlook
may possess some novelty for readers in the United States,
for my country sees not only the greater part of the books
produced in yours, but those published in Great Britain as
well--not to speak of our own books. Canada is, I belleve,
the only country so blessed.
  Statesmen are fond of stressing Canada's role as a mediator
bet . . .
										

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