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This Victorian-era dramedy was adapted by playwright/critic John Oxenford from Eugene Scribe and Ernst Legouvé’s “Les doigts de fée” (“Fairy Fingers.”) The original play was first performed by the Comédie-Française in 1861. It tells the story of an impoverished young noblewoman who scandalizes her blue-blooded kinsmen by deciding to work for a living. She assumes a false name and enters the world of high fashion, becoming one of Paris’…
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Introduction to The Philosophy of History-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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English Costume-Dion Clayton Calthrop
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Tales of Chekhov, Vol. 13, Love and Other Stories-Anton Chekhov
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Town Traveller-George Gissing
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Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America Its Etiquette And Equipage-Rodris Roth
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