This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a picaresque novelist with an interest in siblings: " It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy ."
The winner receives a £25 Blackwells voucher and
the closing date is November 9 .
Entries should be sent to:
First Impressions
The THES
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London E1W 1BX,
faxed to 020-7782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk
The winner of last week's competition, who correctly identified Samuel Beckett's Molloy , is Maggie Butcher of Gresham College, London.
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