Falkland: Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Old Classics, My Old Classics
- 140 pages
- English
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Falkland: Complete
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Old Classics, My Old Classics
About This Book
Falkland by Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Of all my possessions this is the least valuable in itself, and derives the least interest from the associations of childhood, for it was not at L- that any part of that period was spent. I have, however, chosen it from my present retreat, because here only I am personally unknown, and therefore little likely to be disturbed.I do not, indeed, wish for the interruptions designed as civilities; I rather gather around myself, link after link, the chains that connected me with the world; I find among my own thoughts that variety and occupation which you only experience in your intercourse with others; and I make, like the Chinese, my map of the universe consist of a circle in a square-the circle is my own empire and of thought and self; and it is to the scanty corners which it leaves without, that I banish whatever belongs to the remainder of mankind.