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He became Foreign Correspondent to The Times and a successful barrister , an active propagandist for several good causes , and one of the founders of University College . Since he could not pretend , in his sagacious modesty , to be the ...
He became Foreign Correspondent to The Times and a successful barrister , an active propagandist for several good causes , and one of the founders of University College . Since he could not pretend , in his sagacious modesty , to be the ...
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Again lonely , cherishing for life his unreturned love , perhaps disillusioned as to other matters , Turgenev became the melancholy , slightly bitter man who wrote Rudin , Virgin Soil , and Fathers and Children .
Again lonely , cherishing for life his unreturned love , perhaps disillusioned as to other matters , Turgenev became the melancholy , slightly bitter man who wrote Rudin , Virgin Soil , and Fathers and Children .
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When he was twenty - four his long poem , Childe Harold , published almost inadvertently , became the sensation of London . He was a peer who was also a snob , was politically " agin all governments ” , was a socialite at whose ...
When he was twenty - four his long poem , Childe Harold , published almost inadvertently , became the sensation of London . He was a peer who was also a snob , was politically " agin all governments ” , was a socialite at whose ...
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| Title | Londoner's Post: Letters to Gog and Magog |
| Author | Frank Swinnerton |
| Publisher | Hutchinson, 1952 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 174 pages |
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