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In Our Time - Epistolary Literature - BBC Sounds

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Epistolary LiteratureEpistolary Literature

Released On: 15 Mar 2007

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Melvyn Bragg discusses epistolary literature from Aphra Benn to Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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