The Disentanglers
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By Andrew Lang 3 Oct, 2019
Excerpt........The scene was a dusky shabby little room in Ryder Street.  To such caves many repair whose days are passed, and whose food is consumed, in the clubs of the adjacent thoroughfare of cooperative palaces, Pall Mall.  The furniture was b ... Read more
Excerpt........The scene was a dusky shabby little room in Ryder Street.  To such caves many repair whose days are passed, and whose food is consumed, in the clubs of the adjacent thoroughfare of cooperative palaces, Pall Mall.  The furniture was battered and dingy; the sofa on which Logan sprawled had a certain historic interest: it was covered with cloth of horsehair, now seldom found by the amateur.  A bookcase with glass doors held a crowd of books to which the amateur would at once have flown.  They were in ‘boards’ of faded blue, and the paper labels bore alluring names: they were all First Editions of the most desirable kind.  The bottles in the liqueur case were antique; a coat of arms, not undistinguished, was in relief on the silver stoppers.  But the liquors in the flasks were humble and conventional. Less
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  • 2010-02-28
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  • 978-1514840887
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Andrew Lang, FBA was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the ...
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