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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Gates Wide Open; Or, Scenes in Another World |
| Author | George Wood |
| Publisher | Lee and Shepard, 1870 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 1 May 2007 |
| Length | 340 pages |
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