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Fighting Fire with Fire.(alleged fire damage to E.M. Forster books)(Humor)(Brief Article)

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Date: 20000701
Author:Orlans, Harold

Soon after Alexandria was published in 1922, E. M. Forster "received a regretful letter from Whitehead Morris & Co. (the publishers), informing him that there had been a fire in the warehouse and that the entire stock of Alexandria had burned. Fortunately...it had been insured; and they enclosed a substantial cheque in compensation. A few weeks later he received another letter from the publishers....It said that, upon further search, the books had been found intact, in a cellar that had escaped the flames. This, in view of the insurance money, his publishers wrote, had created a ...

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