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title: 'Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader’s Handbook, Vol. 3'
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- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1896-01-01
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topics:
- 'Almanacs and Encyclopedias'
- 'Fiction'
- 'Literature'
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- 'Psalms 23'
- 'Psalms 137'
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# Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader’s Handbook, Vol. 3

OCR'd pages from Reader's Handbook, vol. III (1896): an illustrated compendium of character sketches and literary entries (Falstaff, Dantes, Hugo, Shakespeare, etc.).

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