Merrie England (book)

Merrie England (book)

Merrie England is an influential collection of essays on socialism by Robert Blatchford, published in 1893. It sold over two million copies worldwide.[1]



Notes

  1. ^ Oxford Companion to English Literature, Edited by Margaret Drabble, Oxford University, 2006, (pg.109).

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