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"Prose Fiction"
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"A Study in Scarlet [originally, "A Tangled Skein" in Beeton's Christmas Annual]"
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"Aestheticism and Decadence"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Victorian"
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Date: 1887
"A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)