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For as long as the world has existed, there have been no phenomena so remarkable as the reading of novels in Germany and the Revolution in France. They have evolved more or less simultaneously, and it is not beyond the bounds of probability that novels have been just as much the cause of unhappiness to people in secret as the terrible French Revolution has been publicly.!

Reinhard Wittmann (1999), 'Was there a Reading Revolution at the End of the Eighteenth Century?', in Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (eds), A History of Reading in the West, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, pp. 284-312.

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