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Walter Besant

 

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[unknown] : [American literature]

'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant      Print: Unknown

  

Rudyard Kipling : The Light that Failed

'[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it through a second time.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant      Print: Book

 

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