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EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY
THACKERAY
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1879.
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CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.
In the foregoing volumes of this series of English Men of Letters, andin other works of a similar nature which have appeared lately as to theAncient Classics and Foreign Classics, biography has naturally been,if not the leading, at any rate a considerable element. The desire iscommon to all readers to know not only what a great writer has written,but also of what nature has been the man who has produced such greatwork. As to all