[PDR] The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli

Wed Feb 6 18:18:55 UTC 2013

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  THE CURIOUS WORLD OF ISAAC D’ISRAELI

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*Marvin Spevack introduces the /Curiosities of Literature/, the epic 
cornucopia of essays on all things literary by Isaac D’Israeli: a 
scholar, man of letters and father of British Prime Minister Benjamin 
Disraeli.*

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