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Bullett writes in the 1930 edition In this volume the two parts of one
novel, divided hitherto by the accident of their several publication,
appear as a continuous whole: which is to say, as originally planned by
their author. It was not the tale of Egg but of Nicky that I sat down to
tell... only to discover, after writing a few paragraphs, that of these
two Pandervils, father and youngest son, the father, being overscored
with the intimate tracery of time, was at the moment the far likelier to
engage my passionate interest... So it is that the heart of Egg
Pandervil, which... becomes, and remains to the end, the true heart of
this novel. I>and Nicky, Son of EggThe History of Egg Pandervil
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I>.
Bullett writes in the 1930 edition In this volume the two parts
of one novel, divided hitherto by the accident of their several
publication, appear as a continuous whole: which is to say, as
originally planned by their author. It was not the tale of Egg but of
Nicky that I sat down to tell... only to discover, after writing a few
paragraphs, that of these two Pandervils, father and youngest son, the
father, being overscored with the intimate tracery of time, was at the
moment the far likelier to engage my passionate interest... So it is
that the heart of Egg Pandervil, which... becomes, and remains to the
end, the true heart of this novel. I>and Nicky, Son of EggThe
History of Egg Pandervil <
