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'This essay uses the records of local library borrowers' choices in the early twentieth century to approach a body of fiction that has been given many names: popular fiction, forgotten books, 'the great unread', victims of 'the slaughterhouse of literature'....' (87)
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Forgotten Books and Local Readers : Popular Fiction in the Library at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Australian Literary Studies
Australian Literary Studies
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