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S’agit de la désenterrer. ‘Help!’ cries a buried masterpiece

Posted on October 20, 2015 by mafalda

The character of the Countess, in Prince Otto, was inspired by the Russian princess met in Mentone in 1874: “The Countess von Rosen, I have; I’ll never tell you who she is; it’s a secret; but I have known the … Continue reading →

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You know I was a story-teller ingrain; did not that reassure you?

Posted on December 26, 2014 by mafalda

  The volume of studies was eventually called Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882), and the one of the essays Virginibus Puerisque (1881). The essays here mentioned on Benjamin Franklin and William Penn were projects long cherished but in … Continue reading →

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