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The first two sentences in the book I am currently reading are:
A Frenchman named Chamfort, who should have known better, once said that chance was a nickname for Providence.
It is one of those convenient, question-begging aphorisms coined to discredit the unpleasant truth that chance plays an important, if not predominant, part in human affairs.
I am only a few pages into the book, but I already know I will like it. I don't think this is the first time I read this book or this author, but if I did read it, I was very young. So it will be a new experience.
The book cover pictured is not the one I have. I am reading the book in a Quality Paperback Book Club edition that combines it with two other books by Ambler, Journey into Fear and The Light of Day. But I would love to have that copy. I collect vintage paperbacks.
The excerpt above reminds me of a quote from an Astaire and Rogers film (The Gay Divorcee):
Chance is the fool's name for fate.I enjoy both vintage mysteries and vintage movies.
3 comments:
I'm not familiar with this book or author...hope you are enjoying it.
Here's my Book Beginnings post.
This is the second time I've come across this book recently. I am definitely adding it to my wish list because I am on a tear with vintage mysteries.
Thanks for posting the opening lines on Book Beginnings.
Yippee a new vintage author for me!
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