Bury My Heart At W. H. Smith’s

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Brian Aldiss. Bury My Heart At W. H. Smith’s

BRIAN ALDISS. Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith’s

Introduction

Apéritif. Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith’s

1. My First Editor

2. Three Pounds a Week

3. Vienna Steak, Heinz Salad Cream

4. Imaginary Diaries

5. Elegy for Minor Poets

6. Recuperation: a Brief Chapter

7. In the Big Spaceship

8. Following in SPB’s Footsteps

9. I Dream Therefore I Become

10. Helping Writers – and Otherwise

11. An Evening in London, a Weekend in Nottingham

12. White Hopes, Black Olives

13. Wandering Scholars

14. Critic in a Jacuzzi

15. Stubbs Soldiers On

16. Medan, Malacia, Ermalpa, Avernus

17. From Oxford to Italy

18. Charivari

Appendix. By Nicholas Ruddick, University of Regina

WORKS CITED

Footnotes

About the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Halfway towards the rear of the shop is a door which gives on to a twisting stair which leads up to Mr Sanders’ office and, beyond that, the rare book room where few are allowed to go. On the staircase is a framed engraving of Dr Johnson short-sightedly reading a 32mo.

Mind your head as we get to the rear compartment of the shop downstairs. Here, besides rows of books small and gigantic, such as Mrs Jekyll’s Country Life books, we come to the stove, a desk, a gate cutting off the cellar, and the till.

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