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Diary of a Dead Officer : Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West (Classic Reprint) by Arthur Graeme West (2015, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherForgotten Books
ISBN-10133154906X
ISBN-139781331549062
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Book TitleDiary of a Dead Officer : Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West (Classic Reprint)
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicGeneral
IllustratorYes
GenreJuvenile Fiction
AuthorArthur Graeme West
FormatTrade Paperback
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SynopsisExcerpt from The Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West Arthur Graeme West was born in September 1891. The fir few years of his life were spent in the country, but before he was ten years old his people moved to London, where they settled in Highgate, Graeme being sent to the Highgate School, At the age of fourteen he went to Blundell's School at Tiverton with a scholarship. His school-days were not particularly happy. He was at that time too shy and retiring to impose himself in any marked degree on his contemporaries, and his complete ineptitude at any kind of game - I have never seen a man so demonstrably and obviously unathletic - meant that at best he would figure very much in the background in a community where skill at games was the only passport to popularity and the only measure of worth. But worse than this, West was clever - atleast, he was concerned with books; he was also a naturalist, and concerned with bugs; his study used to crawl with caterpillars, and at that time smelt badly. These two tastes combined to damn him as a public-school boy. Blundell's had one universal designation for anyone who regarded books as something other than work, and work as something other than an unpleasant method of wasting boring tracts of time compulsorily inserted in an otherwise interesting existence. This designation was "worm." West was a "worm" and there was no more to be said. Being a worm at Blundell's meant that no one thought of asking your opinion on any matter of importance, and no one went out with you except other "worms." As regards his taste for caterpillars, this was unusual, even a little unorthodox, and therefore an object always of suspicion, and sometimes of active suppression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 The Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West From that time, until his death in April 19 I 7, his life was a succession of training in England and trenches in France, with short intervals of leave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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