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Sundarnaz Posted 9 years ago
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These romances are notable for their stories rather than their poetry, and they, like the drama afterwards, furnished the chief mental recreation of time for the great body of people.

I couldn't grasp the meaning of the underlined part of the sentence. Will anybody help please?

  

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sundarnaz the chief mental recreation of time for the great body of people. = the main intellectual entertainment for most people then (I suggest that a word may be missing from your quote. ")

  • sundarnaz the chief mental recreation of time for the great body of people.
  • = the main intellectual entertainment for most people then (I suggest that a word may be missing from your quote.
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sundarnazthe chief mental recreation of time for the great body of people.

= the main intellectual entertainment for most people then

(I suggest that a word may be missing from your quote. It should read, "...recreation of the time....")

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