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Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
E. V. Lucas
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E. V. Lucas
Age: 70 †
Born: 1868
Born: June 12
Died: 1938
Died: June 26
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London
England
Edward Verrall Lucas
Edward Lucas
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