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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: not perhaps wonderful in a child who was never aware of learning
to read. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and
other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history,
voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged
editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some
French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening before
I began to write myself. I believe it was a novel and it is
quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels. It
is very likely. My acquaintance with him was then very recent.
He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the
first time in English. With men of European reputation, with
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