Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Gabriel Oak's Library
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Far from the Madding Crowd, chapter VIII:
John Frederick Peto (1854-1907), Books
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The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.
