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Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

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Lacking Latin: Ceremonial mistakes in My Oxford Year

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"The character Walter Mitty was first brought to life in James Thurber’s short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, published in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker."

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Film

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Netflix’s city of dreaming Americans: My Oxford Year, reviewed

Lacking Latin: Ceremonial mistakes in My Oxford Year

What can office workers learn from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?

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