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| Title | The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Age |
| Author | John Colin Dunlop |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 443 pages |
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