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| Title | Modern English Literature: Its Blemishes and Defects |
| Author | Henry Hegart Breen |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1857 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Aug 2006 |
| Length | 307 pages |
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