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The Wreck of the Golden Mary

Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Percy Fitzgerald, Holme Lee, Adelaide Anne Proctor, Rev. James White

Maison d'édition: e-artnow

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The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens is a collection of adventurous tales about shipwrecks, ghosts, and madness. Excerpt: "I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life, I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things. A person might suppose, from reading the above, that I am in the habit of holding forth about number one."
Disponible depuis: 08/12/2023.
Longueur d'impression: 85 pages.

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