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  • In the dark days before Oprah, a book could cost more than a workingman's monthly wages, so reading was a rich-man's pastime. (In 1830, books sold for an average of 30 shillings--wages were about six shillings a week.) The standard was set by the massive three-volume "silver fork novels, so named for their authors' obsession with the lifestyle of the upper class.
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