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Title: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Release Date: March 20, 2007 [EBook #20851]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Transcriber's Note:
A number of typographical errors and inconsistencies have been maintained
in this version of this book. Typographical errors have been marked with
a [TN-#], which refers to a description in the complete list found at the
end of the text. A list of words that have been inconsistently spelled or
hyphenated is found at the end of the present text.
The illustrations listed in the illustration list were missing from the
book used as the source for this text.
Text printed in Greek characters in the original text has been
transliterated and surrounded with ~.
The AE, ae, OE, and oe ligatures used in the original book have been
expanded in this version. The following codes are used for characters
that are not present in the character set used for this version of the
book.
['a] a with acute accent
[`a] a with grave accent
[^a] a with circumflex
[:a] a with diaeresis
[)a] a with breve
[=a] a with macron
[c,] c with cedilla
[C,] C with cedilla
['e] e with acute accent
[`e] e with grave accent
[^e] e with circumflex
[:e] e with diaeresis
[)e] e with breve
[=e] e with macron
[`i] i with grave accent
[^i] i with circumflex
[:i] i with diaeresis
['E] E with acute accent
[`E] E with grave accent
[^E] E with circumflex
[)i] i with breve
[=i] i with macron
[~n] n with tilde
[^o] o with circumflex
[:o] o with diaeresis
[)o] o with breve
[=o] o with macron
[:O] O with diaeresis
[`u] u with grave accent
[^u] u with circumflex
[:u] u with diaeresis
[)u] u with breve
[=u] u with macron
[:U] U with diaeresis
[asterism] triang
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