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Title: Magic

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Release date: August 21, 2006 [eBook #19094]

Language: English

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MAGIC

A FANTASTIC COMEDY

G.K. Chesterton

From a photograph

MAGIC

A FANTASTIC COMEDY

BY

G.K. CHESTERTON

G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

The Knickerbocker Press

1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913

BY

G.K. CHESTERTON

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

THE CHARACTERS

THE DUKE

DOCTOR GRIMTHORPE

THE REV. CYRIL SMITH

MORRIS CARLEON

HASTINGS, the Duke's Secretary

THE STRANGER

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