Talk at a Country House: Fact and Fiction (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Talk at a Country House: Fact and FictionThe Squire, as his family and his neighbors called him, was past work, as he used to say, but not past the enjoyments of an old age spent in the home which he shared with his children and grandchildren. And as he loved his bit of Chaucer, he would apply to himself the description of the Clerk.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.