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Everyone in the group read a different book by A.J. Cronin, including 'The Green Years', 'The Citadel', 'The Crusader's Tomb', 'Gracie Lindsay', 'The Minstrel Boy', and 'Beyond This Place'. We found that most of the books shared similar themes of the crippling effects of poverty, social injustice, corruption, hypocrisy, attitudes to women and their 'morals', and an almost Dickensian contrast between rich and poor. We discovered that Cronin drew heavily on his own experiences as the child of a Ca
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