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But stebbings book contains no thoreau which the anthology in the film does. This seventeenthcentury polyglot englishfrenchlatin aesop is handsomely illustrated with engravings after designs by francis barlow. I agree that this is as close to the book in the movie dead poets society. This volume has been signed by women who owned it in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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