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My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum

by Herman Charles Merivale

It's a very interesting story from a man broken by an absurd system trying to recount what happened to him in order to at least come to terms with it himself... if not maybe get people to start talking about reforming it.

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English

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English

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1879

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Herman Charles Merivale was an English dramatist and poet, son of Herman Merivale. He also used the punning pseudonym Felix Dale. Herman Charles Merivale was born in London on 27 January 1839, the on...

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