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February 2011

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Sadly, although somewhat charming, "The Story of a...

“Perhaps, too, the author, with the chronic weakness peculiar to the preface-writers — the sudden impulse which seizes them to give their own case away — might have been led to confess a doubt touching his wisdom in calling the book “The Story of a Bad Boy.” He wished simply to draw a line at the start between his hero — a natural boy — and that...