{"product_id":"2940012930040","title":"Misrepresentative Men","description":"• \"TYPE 'SOGAN' IN THE NOOK BOOK SEARCH BOX TO VIEW ALL MY TITLES!\"\u003cbr\u003e• Illustrated book \u003cbr\u003e• Images has been resized  and optimized for the Nook\u003cbr\u003e• Table of contents with working links to chapters is included\u003cbr\u003e• The book has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors\u003cbr\u003e• New and improved version\u003cbr\u003e• \u003cbr\u003eALL great biographers possess,\u003cbr\u003eBesides a thirst for information,\u003cbr\u003eThat talent which commands success,\u003cbr\u003eI mean of course Imagination;\u003cbr\u003eCombining with excessive Tact\u003cbr\u003eA total disregard for Fact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoswell and Froude, and all the rest,\u003cbr\u003eWith just sufficient grounds to go on,\u003cbr\u003eCould only tell the world, at best,\u003cbr\u003eWhat Great Men did, and thought—and so on.\u003cbr\u003eBut I, of course, can speak to you\u003cbr\u003eAbout the things they didn't do.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don't rely on breadth of mind,\u003cbr\u003eOn wit or powers of observation;\u003cbr\u003eCarnegie's libraries I find\u003cbr\u003eA fruitful source of inspiration;\u003cbr\u003eThe new Encyclopedia Brit.\u003cbr\u003eHas helped me, too, a little bit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn any case I cannot fail,\u003cbr\u003eWith such a range of mental vision,\u003cbr\u003eSo deep a passion for detail,\u003cbr\u003eAnd such meticulous precision.\u003cbr\u003eI pity men like Sidney Lee;\u003cbr\u003eHow jealous they must be of me!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This easy work to be exact,\u003cbr\u003e(I have no fear of contradiction),\u003cbr\u003eSince it has been allowed that Fact\u003cbr\u003eIs stranger far than any Fiction;\u003cbr\u003eBut what demands the truest wit\u003cbr\u003eIs knowing what one should omit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarlyle, for instance, finds no place\u003cbr\u003eAmong my list of lucubrations;\u003cbr\u003eBecause I have no wish to face\u003cbr\u003eThe righteous wrath of his relations.\u003cbr\u003eWhatever feud they have with Froude,\u003cbr\u003eNo one can say that I was rude.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is written to supply\u003cbr\u003eA long-felt want among Beginners;\u003cbr\u003eA handbook where the student's eye\u003cbr\u003eMay read the lives of saints and sinners,\u003cbr\u003eAnd learn, without undue expense,\u003cbr\u003eThe fruits of their experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book to buy and give away,\u003cbr\u003eTo fill the youthful with ambition,\u003cbr\u003eFor even they may hope, some day,\u003cbr\u003eTo share the Author's erudition;\u003cbr\u003eSo not in vain, nor void of gain,\u003cbr\u003eThe work of his colossal brain.","brand":"vladislav sogan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165169533168,"sku":"2940012930040","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012930040_p0.jpg?v=1763574476","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012930040","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}