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Scenes of Clerical Life
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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Scenes of Clerical Life
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Publisher's Summary
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What the critics say
"The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humor and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of." (Charles Dickens)
"It is a first-rate novel, and its author takes rank at once among the masters of the art." (London Times)