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auv De .Maupassant Is the most gifted
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A great Poet, playrlght. Novelist and Essayist. Ldteraure
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pis
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Honore De Balzac
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It Is indeed true that though written
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Dante
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Longfellow
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Scott
In 1S14. at the age of 43. Scott
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Sir Walter Scott.
Dickens
Charles Dickens.
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Pepys Diary
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