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_Title:_ Concrete–A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence
_Date of first publication:_ 1930
_Author:_ Aelfrida Catherine Wetenhall Tillyard (1883-1959)
_Date first posted:_ Oct. 3, 2023
_Date last updated:_ Oct. 24, 2023
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_Other Works by_
_AELFRIDA TILLYARD_
_(Mrs. Constantine Graham)_
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_NOVELS_
THE YOUNG MILLINER
THE WAY WE GROW UP

_POETRY_
TO MALISE, AND OTHER POEMS
THE GARDEN AND THE FIRE
CAMBRIDGE POETS, 1900-1913; AN
ANTHOLOGY
(Poems by Rupert Brooke, J. Elroy
Flecker, Harold Monro, Frances
Cornford, Aelfrida Tillyard,
etc., etc.)

_BIOGRAPHY_
THE LIFE OF AGNES E. SLACK

_COMPARATIVE RELIGION AND MYSTICISM_
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES: AN ESSAY IN
PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION
THE MAKING OF A MYSTIC
VISION TRIUMPHANT: A SPIRITUAL
PILGRIMAGE
A LITTLE ROAD-BOOK FOR MYSTICS
CAN I BE A MYSTIC?
_Letters to a Stranger in answer to
his Question._ (In preparation)

_FOR CHILDREN_
LE LIVRE DES JEUX: FRENCH GAMES
BAMMIE’S BOOK OF CHILDREN’S VERSES
VERSES FOR ALETHEA
MESSAGES

_Aelfrida Tillyard_

CONCRETE

A STORY OF TWO HUNDRED
YEARS HENCE

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_London_
HUTCHINSON & CO. (PUBLISHERS) LTD.
_34, 35 & 36 Paternoster Row, E.C.4_
1930

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
AT THE ANCHOR PRESS, TIPTREE, ESSEX

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