The Delicious Vice: Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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And every habitual novel-reader will answer that question he has asked himself, after a si h. A sigh that will echo from the tropic desert island of Juan Fernandez to that utmost ice-bound point of Siberia where by chance or destiny the seven nails in the sole of a certain mysterious person's shoe, in the month of October, 1831, formed a cross - thus.

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