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Title: Of sunken islands and pestilence : restoring the voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to nineteenth-century Canadian literature / Edward Taylor Fletcher ; edited by James Gifford.

Other titles: Works. Selections

Names: Fletcher, Edward Taylor, 1816?-1897, author. | Gifford, James, 1974- editor.

Description: Essays and poems. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220252009 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220252173 | ISBN 9781771993449 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771993456 (PDF) | ISBN 9781771993463 (EPUB)

Classification: LCC PS8461.L48 A6 2022 | DDC C811/.4—dc23

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