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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

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William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
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