PREFACE.
It has lately been objected to me, in studiously courteous
terms of course, that I borrow from other books, and
am a plagiarist. To this I reply that I borrow
facts from every accessibl...
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By the time Charles Reade had reached the age of forty, he had written only two of his fourteen novels, Peg Woffington (1853) and Christie Johnstone (1853); but he had already written at least fifteen...
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A Simpleton
Charles Reade