When Isabella Mary Beeton’s Book of Household Management appeared on October 1, 1861, few could have anticipated the reach and endurance of what became the most famous domestic manual of the Victorian age. Selling some 60,000 copies in its first year alone, the work…
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First published in the United Kingdom in 1884, Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” hit the book stores in the United States on February 18, 1885 as a sequel to Twain’s earlier novel, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.” The novel is narrated by Huck…
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