Born in Exile
โ Scribed by George R. Gissing
- Publisher
- Echo Library
- Year
- 1891;1910
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
With the growth of his militant egoism, there had developed in Godwin Peak an excess of nervous sensibility which threatened to deprive his character of the initiative rightly belonging to it. Self-assertion is the practical complement of self-esteem. To be largely endowed with the latter quality, yet constrained by a coward delicacy to repress it, is to suffer martyrdom at the pleasure of every robust assailant, and in the end be driven to the refuge of a moody solitude.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781406809428
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