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Elizabeth Smart – The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals (страница 1)

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Elizabeth Smart

The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

Copyright

Fourth Estate

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This eBook first published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2015

Paperback previously published by Panther Books 1980 and Paladin 1991

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd in association with Polytantric Press 1978

Copyright © the literary estate of Elizabeth Smart

The Author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Cover photograph © Charles Hewitt / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Author photograph © Georgina Barker

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Source ISBN: 9780008155742

Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780008155759

Version: 2015-07-10

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Part One: After the War

This Is the Scene

Part Two: Signed on for the Duration

Part Three: Working

Part Four: Bearing

Part Five: The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals

Part Six: Kinship Is Established

Paving-Stones Play the Part of the Water Snakes in the Ancient Mariner

Sometimes Pity Seeps in Even for the Self-Pitying

A Publican’s Wife Tells Her Story

Part Seven: Lament of a Maker

Part Eight: Caught Up With the People and the Dangers They Have Passed

A Bad Night in Soho

At Grips With a Boss

At Grips With a Vicar

At Grips With a Psychologist

Part Nine: The Story of Our Life

Part Ten: Fear of Failing

A Strange Dream

A Forgotten Canadian Calls

Part Eleven: On, on

Trying to Write, Trying to Survive