{"product_id":"2940015830187","title":"The Celebrity at Home","description":"CHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey say that a child's childhood is the happiest time of its life!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMine isn't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor it is nice to do as you like even if it isn't good for you. It is\u003cbr\u003enice to overeat yourself even though it does make you ill afterwards. It\u003cbr\u003eis a positive pleasure to go out and do something that catches you a\u003cbr\u003ecold, if you want to, and to leave off your winter clothes a month too\u003cbr\u003esoon. Children hate feeling \"stuffy\"--no grown-up person understands\u003cbr\u003ethat feeling that makes you wriggle and twist till you get sent to bed.\u003cbr\u003eIt is nice to go to bed when you are sleepy, and no sooner, not to be\u003cbr\u003edespatched any time that grown-up people are tired of you and take the\u003cbr\u003equickest way to get rid of a nuisance. Taken all round, the very nicest\u003cbr\u003ething in the world is your own way and plenty of it, and you never get\u003cbr\u003ethat properly, it seems to me, until you are too old to enjoy it, or too\u003cbr\u003ecross to admit that you do!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI suspect that the word \"rice-pudding\" will be written on my heart, as\u003cbr\u003eCalais was on Bloody Mary's, when I am dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have got that blue shade about the eyes that they say early-dying\u003cbr\u003echildren have, and I may die young. So I am going to write down\u003cbr\u003eeverything, just as it happens, in my life, because when I grow up, I\u003cbr\u003emean to be an author, like my father before me, and teach in song, or in\u003cbr\u003eprose, what I have learned in suffering. Doing this will get me\u003cbr\u003einsensibly into the habit of composition. George--my father--we always\u003cbr\u003ecall him by his Christian name by request--offered to look it over for\u003cbr\u003eme, but I do not think that I shall avail myself of his kindness. I want\u003cbr\u003eto be quite honest, and set down everything, in malice, as grown-up\u003cbr\u003epeople do, and then your book is sure to be amusing. I shall say the\u003cbr\u003eworst--I mean the truth--about everybody, including myself. That is what\u003cbr\u003emakes a book saleable. People don't like to be put off with short\u003cbr\u003ecommons in scandal, and chuck the book into the fire at once as I have\u003cbr\u003eseen George do, when the writer is too discreet. My book will not be\u003cbr\u003ediscreet, but crisp, and gossippy. Even Ariadne must not read it,\u003cbr\u003ehowever much of my hair and its leaves she pulls out, for she will claw\u003cbr\u003eme in her rage, of course. Grammar and spelling will not be made a\u003cbr\u003especialty of, because what you gain in propriety you lose in originality\u003cbr\u003eand _verve_. I do adore _verve_!","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121225777392,"sku":"2940015830187","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015830187","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}