Books with author William O. Douglas

Excerpt from Three Tales: The Ghost; The Brazen Android; The CarpenterA hasty memorandum, not particularly for Preface to the following tales, but to put on record my respect and affection for as sane, beautiful, cute, tolerant, loving, candid and free and fair-intentional a nature as ever vivified our race.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.

My daughter asked me to write my memoir when I wasn't too busy. I had just finished another book, so my groove was running in the right direction. These 311 pages took me about 7 weeks. This book is not considered "published," since that would require promotion, and I don't intend to promote it. Thank you to all interested family and friends. There will also be a Kindle edition. It has several pages of photographs which I considered essential, but I expect they will be less than totally satisfactory - in the paperback, they will be monochrome, and in the Kindle, they will be displayed in odd ways. So it goes!

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Excerpt from Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's Wit: Together With Selections, Chiefly From His Contributions to Journals, Intended to Illustrate His OpinionsMonthly Magazine, more than twenty years ago, under the nom -de plume of Henry Browmigg, ln eluding Papers of a Gentleman at-arms, have been carefully examined, that the present volume might be made worthier of the author's reputa tion. But the book includes, after all, only a scanty proportion of the witticisms which belong to Douglas Jerrold, and which find their way to every place where the English language is spoken. This is the more to be regretted since it is indis putable that Douglas Jerrold did not write his best jokes. He cast them forth, in the course of con versation, and forgot them as soon as they were launched. Often when reminded, on the morrow of a party, of some good thing he had said, he would turn, in surprise, upon his informant, and ask, Did I really say that?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.