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Besides , even in the days when giants lived there were bad writers . Jane Austen , who wrote pungent letters to her sister ( not quite the best of her compositions , but very good for all that , and much better than is sometimes ...
Besides , even in the days when giants lived there were bad writers . Jane Austen , who wrote pungent letters to her sister ( not quite the best of her compositions , but very good for all that , and much better than is sometimes ...
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and , besides several episcopal relations , had a grandmother who was canonized ) lived much , of choice , alone at her country home , observing the monde from a distance . What she chronicled in writing intimately to her daughter were ...
and , besides several episcopal relations , had a grandmother who was canonized ) lived much , of choice , alone at her country home , observing the monde from a distance . What she chronicled in writing intimately to her daughter were ...
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Imagine any living critic reading The Earthly Paradise for the twentieth time ! Imagine any living critic being glad that he had read Le Grand Cyrus , one of the longest novels in the world , and far longer than its mere length in pages ...
Imagine any living critic reading The Earthly Paradise for the twentieth time ! Imagine any living critic being glad that he had read Le Grand Cyrus , one of the longest novels in the world , and far longer than its mere length in pages ...
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Contents
WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
Copyright | |
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