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Old 03-04-2014, 12:20 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
... the issue arises more with "classic" books, and the introductory review is not a book review as much as it is something of an essay - a scholarly discussion of the history and impact of the book...
That was exactly the case with the example I quoted (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) - which, come to think of it, was the Penguin Modern Classics edition.

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