then he asked me, “You’ve written many, many books. How can you say you’re not a man of letters?”

那位朋友又问，“你明明写了那许多作品，你怎么说不是文学家呢？”

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His previous pre-election work, “Testimony”, sold well and was his fifth title, even though he was then cultivating a blokeish, football-playing image, not that of a man of letters.

他在参加竞选前出版的第5本书《见证》销量可观，尽管那时他所塑造的形象是一个典型的足球小子，而非文人。

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Mr Miller gave up his career as a doctor to become a man of letters.

米勒先生放弃了医生这一职业，成了一位作家。

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In one of these letters, a famous letter to his friend, Francesco Vettori a man named Francesco Vettori, he describes how he came to write his most famous book.

其中一封信，是写给他的一位知名友人，名为，他形容自己,如何写就其最著名的大作。

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From an early age he adopted a foppish, bohemian style, and in due course, having thrown over his studies in engineering and the possibility of a legal career, he became a man of letters.

ECONOMIST: Literary lives

The settings, too, are interiors: cramped rooms, generally lent by understanding friends after Coleridge had left his wife and children in the Lake District and decided to become a man of letters in London.

ECONOMIST: English poets

It should come as no surprise that Baker, a distinguished man of letters, should nevertheless be interested in the lees of eroticism.

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