Found something interesting on the library freebie shelf last Saturday: THE SCHOLAR ADVENTURERS by Richard D. Altick. "High detective work exposing fraud, exploding hoary errors, exhuming old mysteries of great literature and great writers." Boswell, Malory, Marlowe, the Brontes, Hawthorne, Pepys and more all under the microscope of this literary gumshoe. Looks really good but will have to wait until I finish the Louise Penny mystery my wife suggested I read.
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"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being." Mary Shelley, FRANKENSTEIN
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