Golden Multitudes: The Story of Best Sellers in the United States, Volume 10Macmillan Company, 1947 - 357 pages |
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... Letters , and their version found a place in thousands of home libraries under the title The Elements of a Polite Education . The illegitimate son to whom the letters were written , as part of his father's effort to make him " a perfect ...
... Letters , and their version found a place in thousands of home libraries under the title The Elements of a Polite Education . The illegitimate son to whom the letters were written , as part of his father's effort to make him " a perfect ...
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... letters for the guidance of middle - class people who might wish to improve themselves in the epistolary art . Richardson had sometimes done hackwork for the book- sellers , who were the real publishers of the time in London . He ...
... letters for the guidance of middle - class people who might wish to improve themselves in the epistolary art . Richardson had sometimes done hackwork for the book- sellers , who were the real publishers of the time in London . He ...
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... Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania , 49- 50 , 304 . Letters of a British Spy , 317 . Letters of J. Downing , Major , 318 . Letters on Marriage , 32 . Letters on Theron and Aspasio , 16 , 316 . Letters to His Son , Chesterfield's , 31 , ...
... Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania , 49- 50 , 304 . Letters of a British Spy , 317 . Letters of J. Downing , Major , 318 . Letters on Marriage , 32 . Letters on Theron and Aspasio , 16 , 316 . Letters to His Son , Chesterfield's , 31 , ...
Contents
Vox Pop | 1 |
What Is a Best Seller? | 6 |
Religion and Sensation in Colonial Times II | 11 |
Copyright | |
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