Excerpt from Dick: A Story Without a Plot Qur s'excuse s'accuse, ' and a preface is almost necessarily something of an excuse. My sole object in writing this is to explain that, thoughl have made my hero a Rugby boy, the character and incidents are purely imaginary. Indi vidual boys may find expressions of their own detached from their original context and woven into new situations but that is the only liberty I have taken. The masters introduced or alluded to are all either fictions of the brain or, as in the case of the Housemaster, inten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.