This charming chronicle has no plot.
It is an attempt to present a happy, wittysimple-minded woman who attracted lovebecause she gave it out, and tried to make herhome a little well of happiness in the desert ofthe world. After all most people live theirlives without its incidents forming in any sensea "plot." However, to tell this sort of storyis difficult; the attention of the reader mustbe aroused and held by the sheer merit of thewriting, and the publishers believe they havefound in Catherine Cotton a writer with justthe right gifts of wit, sympathy,and understanding.
EXPERIENCE
by
CATHERINE COTTON
LONDON 48 PALL MALL
W. COLLINS SONS & CO LTD
GLASGOW SYDNEY AUCKLAND
Copyright
First Impression, June, 1922
Second Impression, November, 1922
Third Impression, January, 1923
Fourth Impression, September, 1923
Fifth Impression, March, 1925
Sixth Impression, April, 1926
Seventh Impression, October, 1927
Eighth Impression, February, 1928
Ninth Impression, October, 1928
Tenth Impression, July, 1929
Printed in Great Britain
TO
ARTHUR, CHARLIE, ROSS, ALEC, AND BOB
(Five very gallant gentlemen who gave their lives
for England)
PREFACE
It has been said that 'Novelists are the Showmenof life.' Perhaps because the world has passedthrough a time of special stress and strain it hascome about that the modern novel is largelyconcerned with the complexities of life and is veryoften an unhappy and a tiring thing to read.
Yet humour, happiness, and love exist and arejust as real as gloom, so need the 'realism' of abook be called in question because it picturespleasant scenes?
For there are still some joyous souls who smiletheir way through life because they take itsexperience with a simplicity that is rarer than it usedto be.
This, then, is the story of a woman whose outlookwas a happy one; whose mind was never rent byany great temptations, and who, because she wasNOT 'misunderstood in early youth,' never struggledfor 'self-expression,' but only to express herself(in as many words as possible!) to the greatamusement and uplifting of her family!
For these reasons this book, like that of theimmortal Mr Jorrocks, 'does not aspire to thedignity of a novel,' but is just a story—an Aprilmixture of sun and shadow—as most lives are;a book to read when you're tired, perhaps, sinceit tells of love and a home and garden and suchlike restful things. And if it makes you smile andsigh at times, well, maybe, that is because lifebrings BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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