''The Broad Highway'' is a novel published in 1910 by English author

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. Much of the novel is set in

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, a small village

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. It was a best-seller, and the number one selling fiction book in the United States in 1911.

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'')(February 19, 1911)
THE BROAD HIGHWAY: A New Writer's Old-Fashioned Novel of the Early Nineteenth Century in England
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''Shelley, Henry C. (September 7, 1911)
Jeffery Farnol and "The Broad Highway"
''The Independent (New York)'', p. 523-23

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''The Broad Highway''
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''The Broad Highway''
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