Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066246044
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PREFACE
A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of