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The divine gift; a play in three acts

Henry Arthur Jones · 1913 · Scanned text · Free in the US

41,147 words · about 2 h 53 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1913, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/13013544); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Henry Arthur Jones
Language
English
Published
1913
Length
41,147 words · about 2 h 53 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (6)
  1. Dedication about 49 min
  2. Act I about 38 min
  3. Act II about 37 min
  4. Act III about 49 min
  5. I under 1 min
  6. II under 1 min
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Dedication

DEDICATION

Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford.

Dear Professor Murray, — In your interesting summary of the modern English drama, as reported in an American paper last spring, you incidentally buried me. I had not the faintest idea that I was dead, and am still under the impression that I am alive. But this may be merely a wilful, selfish prejudice of mine.

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