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Styrling's Library
Styrling had a huge collection of fiction as well. We know from various sources he are thousands of novels, plays, short story collections ever. But because these books weren't actually stamped as belonging to his library, that part of his collection completely disappeared after his death. There's no record kept of what book was in it, and what er, which books were given to its library soso. That's why we're uncertain as to the exact nature and scope of thostime's library.
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