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Jeffrey Archer spends time in prison reading.(Brief Article)

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British author Jeffrey Archer, currently serving a jail sentence for perjury, claims to have read 16 novels and plays, as well as several volumes of short stories, in only 67 days.

Lord Archer has said that his time in prison has "allowed me a great deal of time to read", reported The Guardian.

He claims that during his 67 days at a Norfolk prison he read nine Shakespeare plays; three Dickens novels; books by Hermann Hesse, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh; and short story collections by HE Bates, O Henry, Saki, Somerset ...

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