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- ↑ M. Solomon, Beethoven Essays (Harvard 1988) p. 78-9
- ↑ E. Tangye Lean, The Napoleonists (1970) p. 377
- ↑ Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? (Oxford 2008) p. 210
- ↑ A. L. Rowse, History Today 21 (1971) p. 146
- ↑ L. Hudson, The Way Men Think (Essex 1993) p. 44
- ↑ J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon (NY 1965) p. 112-3 and p. 197
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- ↑ G. Steiner, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky (Penguin 1967) p. 29-30
- ↑ D. Magarshack, Intro, Crime and Punishment (Penguin 1976) p. 14
- ↑ D. Lessing, The Golden Notebook (Penguin 1973) p. 302-4
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