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a writer I’ve never read

Jane Austen.  Her books are classics.  There are only six, I think, but they are internationally known and make the English very proud.  Today Barbara and I went to Chawton to visit the house where she did the bulk of her writing (and revising), and I learned that her first books were published under the [...]

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average price: 62.5¢

Went to the Miami Public Library Book Sale.  Amazing.  Here’s a list of the books I got, with their original prices (if known): PLAYS Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee $6.99 CLASSICS Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne $3.99 NOVELS [...]

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