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| Title | A Literary History of the English People from the Origins to the Civil War, Volume 2 A Literary History of the English People from the Origins to the Civil War, Jean Jules Jusserand |
| Author | Jean Jules Jusserand |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's, 1926 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2007 |
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