First Impressions

October 3, 2003

This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from some controversial posthumous memoirs:

"On Tuesday, January the 24th, 1832, I received tidings that my dear and worthy Father had departed out of this world"

The winner receives a Pounds 25 book voucher. The closing date is October 7.

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 I ndustry and Empire: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution , by Eric J. Hobsbawm, was Danny Gray of York.


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