![]() ![]() Larry McMurtry on Crazy Horse, Edmund White on Proust, Karen Armstrong on the Buddha, you get the idea. The publishers at Penguin had what they must have considered an interesting idea at the time of tasking working writers with short biographies on famous figures in history. ![]() This is how you wind up in ownership of two long shelves of oddly esoteric Napoleonic history - just in case you were wondering - and with which, it has occurred to me of late, something must be done.Įnter Paul Johnson and the Penguin Lives Series. 22 to put a cap in that feathered folly (hindsight being twenty-twenty and all), I added the field of study to the creased old list I take with me on my afternoons of book hunting. And instead of reaching for the nearest pearl-handled. Before I knew it I was being haunted by that nocturnal song, serenaded with some insistence toward a project of sorts a vaguely defined labor of artistic expression. Seductive enough to awaken one of those nightingales of inspiration. Several years ago I happened across a few lines about the Corsican. ![]()
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