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Lytton Strachey. ' A SIMPLE STORY'1 A Simple Story is one of those books which , for some reason or other , have failed to come down to us , as they deserved , along the current of time , but have drifted into a literary backwater where ...
Lytton Strachey. ' A SIMPLE STORY'1 A Simple Story is one of those books which , for some reason or other , have failed to come down to us , as they deserved , along the current of time , but have drifted into a literary backwater where ...
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... Simple Story even the narrow canvases of Jane Austen seem spacious pictures of diversified life . Mrs. Inchbald's novel is not concerned with the world at large , or with any section of society , hardly even with the family ; its ...
... Simple Story even the narrow canvases of Jane Austen seem spacious pictures of diversified life . Mrs. Inchbald's novel is not concerned with the world at large , or with any section of society , hardly even with the family ; its ...
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... Simple Story . very happy . 1792. London ; in Leicester Square . . . cheerful , content , and sometimes rather happy ... 1794. Extremely happy , but for poor Debby's death . 1795. My brother George's death , and an intimate acquaintance ...
... Simple Story . very happy . 1792. London ; in Leicester Square . . . cheerful , content , and sometimes rather happy ... 1794. Extremely happy , but for poor Debby's death . 1795. My brother George's death , and an intimate acquaintance ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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