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by , British Autobiographies Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download British Autobiographies books, This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
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by Janet Todd, British Women Writers Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download British Women Writers books, "A welcome and necessary addition to the reference shelf". -- Washington Post Book World
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by Morton N Cohen, Lewis Carroll Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Lewis Carroll books, Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections is more than a biography of the author of the Alice books; it is a record of the man as people knew him. Here is a collection of reminiscences about Lewis Carroll (1832-98) as recalled by his teachers, friends, relatives, colleagues and pupils who provide anecdotes of the schoolboy, proficient in Latin and mathematics at the age of 12, the gifted undergraduate and don, the eldest male of a large family dealing with his brothers' and sisters' problems and of the author of some of the best known children's classics in the English language.
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