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The optimist
E. M. Delafield · 1922 · Scanned text · Free in the US
72,761 words · about 5 h 6 min to read
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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 1922, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/22021107); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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About this book
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- E. M. Delafield
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1922
- Length
- 72,761 words · about 5 h 6 min
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- 3 reader sections
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- Rights
- Public domain in the United States
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