Book · 2006

Wear and Tear or, Hints for the Overworked

Name: Wear and Tear or, Hints for the Overworked
ISBN: 9781406909067

by Silas Weir Mitchell · Recommended by 1 person on 1 podcast

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Weir Mitchell wrote two popular bestsellers, self-help books, suppose you'd call them in the modern genre. One was called Wear and Tear. The pace of modern life, the telegraph, the railway was all too much.

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