Gossamer (Birmingham)

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Gossamer (1915)
by George A. Birmingham

Gossamer is witty enough, in all conscience, but under its brilliant surface a big idea floats, a big emotion flows.... Canon Hannay presents a very different conception of the financier and his function. He sees organised finance not as an octopus, but as a gossamer, a delicate protective web thrown over the fields of human endeavour. "Ascher and men like him," he says, "have spun fine threads, covering every civilised land with a web of credit, infinitely complex, so delicate that a child's hand could tear it. . . . —H. W. Boynton in The Bookman.

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GOSSAMER


BY
G. A. BIRMINGHAM

Author of “General John Regan,” “Spanish Gold,”
The Lost Tribes,” “The Search Party,”
etc., etc.

NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Copyright, 1915,
By George H. Doran Company

BY G. A. BIRMINGHAM



GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
NEW YORK

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