Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough. (V. S. Pritchett)

Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

V. S. Pritchett

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