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A story, oft-repeated during the Great War, ran to the effect that a lady was enraptured with Plutarch’s Lives only so long as she laboured under the impression that they were fiction. Upon being told that the ‘lives’ were real, she refused to read another line.
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Orel, H. (1995). Coda: The Great War, and After. In: The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371491_15
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