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    Myself When Young: Confessions
    Myself When Young: Confessions
    Myself When Young: Confessions
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    Myself When Young: Confessions

    By Alec Waugh

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    Myself When Young: Confessions is an autobiography by Alec Waugh. Waugh was a British novelist who lived much of his life overseas and authored numerous short stories. Excerpt: "I suppose that I must have in some such way spent{24} the week previous to my confession. Or perhaps I felt that I needed organising, that it was on such lines my time should be arranged, and that by the mere fact of writing down a time-table I should "Coué" myself into an observance of it; at any rate it is not, I need perhaps hardly say, very much like that. I do not confine my entertainment entirely to the weekends. Usually three days a week in summer-time are spent lazily on a cricket field. Were I to maintain an average rate of ten thousand words a week, I should produce some half a million words a year, and heaven knows what I should do with them. Nor am I very often down to breakfast by half-past eight."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 19, 2019
    ISBN4064066134501
    Myself When Young: Confessions
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    Alec Waugh

    Alec Waugh (1898-1981) was a British novelist born in London and educated at Sherborne Public School, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical account of public school life that caused some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever to be expelled from The Old Shirburnian Society. Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful author of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the settings for some of his texts. He was also a noted wine connoisseur and campaigned to make the 'cocktail party' a regular feature of 1920s social life.

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