Books I Love: Being a Selection of 100 Titles for a Home Library, with Added Comment on Other Books, Many Authors and the Delights of ReadingDoubleday, 1969 - 200 Seiten |
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... Travels , a book that actually improves with age - the reader's age . Swift's tall tales of the overseas travels of his friend Lemuel Gulliver are stirring adventure stories for young readers . We need added years and experience in life ...
... Travels , a book that actually improves with age - the reader's age . Swift's tall tales of the overseas travels of his friend Lemuel Gulliver are stirring adventure stories for young readers . We need added years and experience in life ...
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... traveled in Europe , had mixed with the literary and diplomatic set here and abroad , was a serious student of history , a scholarly biographer of Thomas Jefferson and James Mad- ison , and was on the whole an educated gentleman from ...
... traveled in Europe , had mixed with the literary and diplomatic set here and abroad , was a serious student of history , a scholarly biographer of Thomas Jefferson and James Mad- ison , and was on the whole an educated gentleman from ...
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... traveled through France , Bavaria , and Italy to add to his knowl- edge and improve his mind , and spent the last seven years of his life on his ancestral acres reading and writing at leisure until his death at the age of fifty - nine ...
... traveled through France , Bavaria , and Italy to add to his knowl- edge and improve his mind , and spent the last seven years of his life on his ancestral acres reading and writing at leisure until his death at the age of fifty - nine ...
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