Coralie, Or, The Wreck of the Sybille |
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| Title | Coralie, Or, The Wreck of the Sybille Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood |
| Author | Charles Henry Eden |
| Publisher | Marcus Ward, 1877 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 24 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 323 pages |
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