From Chapter 1: ‘A friend has sent me a new book, from England–The Shakespeare Problem Restated–well restated and closely reasoned; and my fifty years’ interest in that matter–asleep for the last three years–is excited once more. It is an interest which was born of Delia Bacon’s book–away back in that ancient day–1857, or maybe 1856.
About a year later my pilot-master, Bixby, transferred me from his own steamboat to the Pennsylvania, and placed me under the orders and instructions of George Ealer–dead now, these many, many years. I steered for him a good many months–as was the humble duty of the pilot-apprentice: stood a daylight watch and spun the wheel under the severe superintendence and correction of the master. He was a prime chess player and an idolater of Shakespeare. He would play chess with anybody; even with me, and it cost his official dignity something to do that. ‘
About a year later my pilot-master, Bixby, transferred me from his own steamboat to the Pennsylvania, and placed me under the orders and instructions of George Ealer–dead now, these many, many years. I steered for him a good many months–as was the humble duty of the pilot-apprentice: stood a daylight watch and spun the wheel under the severe superintendence and correction of the master. He was a prime chess player and an idolater of Shakespeare. He would play chess with anybody; even with me, and it cost his official dignity something to do that. ‘
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 719 ● ISBN 9781455366644 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.7 MB ● Editorial Seltzer Books ● Publicado 2018 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 6575512 ● Protección de copia sin
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