The Complete Short Stories of L.P. Hartley by Leslie Poles Hartley

Author:Leslie Poles Hartley [Hartley, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sf_horror, prose_classic
ISBN: 0-8253-0353-2
Publisher: Beaufort Books Publishers
Published: 1986-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

The date for the delivery of the story drew nearer, but Henry was no nearer to writing it. Art had failed him, Nature had failed him; they would not dramatize themselves in his mind.

There remained the human race. At the thought of the human race Henry’s face, could he have seen it, lengthened. As a novelist he had written a lot about the human race, of course; he had even been complimented on his knowledge of it. And he did, he felt, know a lot about it, quite enough, too much. Sitting in his study he had paraded it before him. The human race had its apologists but Henry Tarrant was not among them. He was not going to say smooth things about it. It was a wonder that his public went on reading him, but from a sort of masochism, which was one of their less endearing traits, they did. They took their medicine and came back for more. Surely it should be easy to pour out another little dose?

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