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Books mentioned in One of Ours (6)
Paradise Lost by John Milton: “To him the story of "Paradise Lost" was as mythical as the "Odyssey"; yet when his mother read it aloud to him, it was not only beautiful but true.”
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: “his mother read aloud to him from "Bleak House,"--one of the few novels she loved.”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “Later he found arithmetic and geography more interesting than "Robinson Crusoe."”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “I'm no sissy, but that fellow's a regular Don Quixote.”
Reisebilder by Heinrich Heine: “picked up a book from the table, a volume of Heine's Reisebilder in German.”
Un Crime d'Amour by Paul Bourget: “the book with which he had read himself to sleep last night; the title, "Un Crime d'Amour"”