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... sort of writing that tells things of which some , at least , never happened , but all of which , the writer expects , will seem to the reader as though they had happened . You see , we really live in two worlds ; one world made up of ...
... sort of writing that tells things of which some , at least , never happened , but all of which , the writer expects , will seem to the reader as though they had happened . You see , we really live in two worlds ; one world made up of ...
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... sort of story you would rather read than a story of adventure , and you may be glad to know that your taste has been shared by millions of other people since the beginning of writing . Thousands of years ago the Egyptians and Greeks had ...
... sort of story you would rather read than a story of adventure , and you may be glad to know that your taste has been shared by millions of other people since the beginning of writing . Thousands of years ago the Egyptians and Greeks had ...
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... sort of very loose con- nection with each other . Sometimes they united against a foreign foe , sometimes they fought among themselves . Always , however , the states of Greece met to- gether every four years in a beautiful valley ...
... sort of very loose con- nection with each other . Sometimes they united against a foreign foe , sometimes they fought among themselves . Always , however , the states of Greece met to- gether every four years in a beautiful valley ...
Contents
OUR GREAT AMERICAN WRITERS PART I | 1 |
POEMS FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES PART I | 14 |
FIVE GREAT ENGLISH WRITERS INTRODUCED TO LITTLE FOLK | 27 |
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