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The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair

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The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1926.

33 chaptersComplete chronicle

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