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Selected Letters of Horace Walpole by Horace Walpole, W.S. Lewis

Selected Letters of Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole, W.S. Lewis

323 pages first pub 1959 (editions)

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In one of the numerous letters, from 28 January 1754, he coined the word serendipity which he said was derived from a "silly fairy tale" he had read, The Three Princes of Serendip. The oft-quoted epigram, "This world is a comedy to those that thin...

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