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The Lake's Apprentice by Annamaria Weldon

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November 2014, no. 366

The Lake's Apprentice by Annamaria Weldon

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 245 pp

The Lake's Apprentice by Annamaria Weldon

by
November 2014, no. 366

Samuel Johnson had some advice for aspiring writers. ‘Read over your compositions,’ he said, ‘and where ever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.’ One imagines the impact of this recommendation on an eighteenth-century student of literature, clutching a page of overblown rhetorical flourishes and faux erudition. Our crimes of vanity in writing are very different now – more likely to take the form of descriptive tours de force of the kind fostered in creative writing classes.

Jane Goodall reviews 'The Lake's Apprentice' by Annamaria Weldon

The Lake's Apprentice

by Annamaria Weldon

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 245 pp

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