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    Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
    Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
    Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
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    Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

    Written by Laurence Oliphant

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris, writes here under the amusing guise of Lord Frank Vanecourt, bringing us a veritable pot-pourri of events from everyday life in 1865 as he moves amongst the great, the good, and not so good who reside in the exclusive area of London's Piccadilly W1 and its surroundings. (Introduction by Nigel Carrington)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014

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