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Selden Edwards


Born
The United States

Selden Edwards began writing The Little Book as a young English teacher in 1974, and continued to layer and refine the manuscript until its completion in 2007. It is his first novel. He spent his career as headmaster at several independent schools across the country, and for over forty years has been secretary of his Princeton class, where he also played basketball. He lives in Santa Barbara, California. ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 5,754 ratings · 1,216 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors
The Little Book
3.75 avg rating — 5,005 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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The Lost Prince
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THE LITTLE BOOK ***SIGNED***
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“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books.”
― Seldon Edwards
tags: books, music, randomness
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“You must learn to intrude yourself, if you expect to get anywhere. One cannot always be concerned with being polite and proper, if one is going to achieve anything.”
― Selden Edwards, The Little Book: A Novel
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“I never worry about you, Mr. Honeycutt. I know you will always return to sanity.”
― Selden Edwards, The Lost Prince
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