Books with author Alisa Woods

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Excerpt from Fame-SeekersUp to a certain point she is more capable than the young man of her own age, from her own or any other country. Bewitching, precocious, promising, she makes her stir. Then she comes to the cer tain point, and it is as if a black frost had passed. She scarcely lifts her head again.Not that she should not go over to Paris. She should: the more, the better if she will not permit us to say the merrier. If she'd but go more lightly, go for a lark in learning; go without pre tence, without the disturbing confounding of mere good taste with talent. It makes for disillusion ment, and it means coming back to a home grown dull. If she ends by marrying, heaven help the man, for it is with the secret gnawing of compromise or condescension.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Fame-SeekersUp to a certain point she is more capable than the young man of her own age, from her own or any other country. Bewitching, precocious, promising, she makes her stir. Then she comes to the cer tain point, and it is as if a black frost had passed. She scarcely lifts her head again.Not that she should not go over to Paris. She should: the more, the better if she will not permit us to say the merrier. If she'd but go more lightly, go for a lark in learning; go without pre tence, without the disturbing confounding of mere good taste with talent. It makes for disillusion ment, and it means coming back to a home grown dull. If she ends by marrying, heaven help the man, for it is with the secret gnawing of compromise or condescension.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.