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Royal Children of English HistoryE. Nesbit Royal Children of English History Alfred the Great WHEN I was very, very little, I hated history more than all my other lessons put together, because I had to learn it out of a horrid little book, called somebody's "Outlines of English History"; and it s...

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Author vividly recounts his early years as a Jewish boy growing up among his many relatives in Soviet Uzbekistan in the 1960s and ‘70s.Each chapter carries us back to that childhood world, full of discoveries and events. The book allows us to feel the atmosphere in which the little Bucharan Jewis...