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-HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel, The Marble Faun (1860), introduction by R. Brodhead,
Penguin;
-TWAIN, Mark, The Innocents Abroad (1869), introduction by Tom Quirk, Penguin;
-JAMES, Henry, "Niagara" (1869) (online or any edition); Mark Twain, "A Day at Niagara" (1871, online or any edition);
-JAMES, Henry, Daisy Miller (1878) and Other Stories, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009;
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