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| Title | Oakshaw: Or, the Victims of Avarice: a Tale of Intrigue Wright American fiction, 1851-1875 |
| Author | William Turner Coggeshall |
| Publisher | U.P. James, 1855 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Dec 15, 2006 |
| Length | 4 pages |
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