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  2. The Moon and Sixpence - Wikipedia

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    The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham, first published on 15 April 1919.It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator providing a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character, Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist.

  3. Category:Book series by year of introduction - Wikipedia

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    Category: Book series by year of introduction. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Book series introduced in 1936 (2 P)

  4. Sixpence (British coin) - Wikipedia

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    Following decimalisation, the old sixpence had a value of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 new pence (£0.025). In 2016, new decimal sixpences (face value £0.06) began being minted by the Royal Mint as commemorative issues; these coins have been produced for each year since then, and are minted in sterling silver .

  5. Three-volume novel - Wikipedia

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    The title page of the first volume of the three-volume, first edition of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (1872). The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker [note 1]) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century.

  6. Waverley novels - Wikipedia

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    1760-5, 1781–2 The Antiquary: 1816: North-East Scotland: 1794 Tales of My Landlord, 1st series: The Black Dwarf: 1816: Scottish Borders: 1707 The Tale of Old Mortality: 1816: Southern Scotland: 1679–89 Rob Roy: 1818: Northumberland (England), and the environs of Loch Lomond (Scotland) 1715–16 Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series: The Heart of ...

  7. Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia

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    Thompson was born into a middle-class family in Louisville, Kentucky, the first of three sons of Virginia Davison Ray (1908, Springfield, Kentucky – March 20, 1998, Louisville), who worked as head librarian at the Louisville Free Public Library and Jack Robert Thompson (September 4, 1893, Horse Cave, Kentucky – July 3, 1952, Louisville), a public insurance adjuster and World War I veteran. [6]

  8. Reader's Digest Condensed Books - Wikipedia

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    Reader's Digest Condensed Books was a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by the American general interest monthly family magazine Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail. Most volumes contained five (although a considerable minority consisted of three, four, or six) current best-selling novels and nonfiction books which ...

  9. The Happy Hollisters - Wikipedia

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    ) The Hollister family includes five children, their parents, a family of cats, a dog, and a burro. Pete, the oldest of the Hollister children, is 12 years old. Pam, or Pamela, is 10 years old and very adventurous. Ricky is a red-headed, rambunctious 7-year-old, and Holly is a 6-year-old tomboy. The youngest is Sue, age 4.