The House of Quiet: An Autobiography (Classic Reprint)

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A few words of explanation are, I think, needed, when a book which has been anonymous for several years appears with an author's name on the title-page. My reason for putting my name to the book is in this case the simple one, that it seems foolish to go on trying to keep a secret which is no secret at all, and to persist in holding the mouth of the bag close, long after the cat has leapt out of it. There may, perhaps, be critics who will believe that I had a bad motive for originally withholding my name, just as the King in Aice in Wonderland triumphantly announces that the absence of the Knaves name at the end of the anonymous copy of verses proves his guilt. And there will perhaps be other critics, or more probably the same, who will think that the publication of my name now is a dodge or a device to achieve some end or other. Indeed, an amiable journalist said as much to me the other day, and hinted that to issue anonymous.

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