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A narrator reacts skeptically to a newly published intimate biography of a celebrated novelist, arguing that its flattering portrait misses the real person. She reconstructs two hours of overheard conversation and a brief stint as the biographer’s secretary, offering impressions of literary salons, the biographer’s incisive criticism, and a watchful elder relative. The narrative examines how gossip, selective memory, and personal ambition shape public reputation. Through close, often ironic observation it questions whether any public account can fully capture a complicated private life.

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Title: Legend

Author: Clemence Dane

Release date: November 15, 2020 [eBook #63775]

Language: English

Credits: E-text prepared by ellinora, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

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LEGEND


THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

LEGEND
BY
CLEMENCE DANE
Author of “Regiment of Women” and “First the Blade”
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1920
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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Set up and electrotyped. Published January, 1920.

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