First Impressions

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work much admired by Oscar Wilde:

"Judging by the few portraits preserved in the Chteau de Lourps, the Floresses des Esseintes family had been composed in olden times of sturdy campaigners with forbidding faces."

The winner receives a £25 Blackwell's voucher. The closing date is July 8.

Entries, including postal address, should be sent to

First Impressions
The THES
Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield
London E1W 1BX

faxed to 020 7782 3300
or emailed to theschat@thes.co.uk

The winner of last week's competition, who identified Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is Helen Sutherland, Glasgow University.

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