1. THE BRITON AND THE BRITISH TEXT
In the Bulgarian public mind at the time, words like "Protestant" stood about halfway between "Eastern Orthodox" and "Muslim", i.e. they were of a moderately opprobrious nature, usually implying "too strange to swallow". ... The patriarchal quality of the Bulgarian ethnic society ran in a somewhat parallel manner to the Victorian middle-class patriarchalism. Small wonder, then, that the British authors who enjoyed the greatest popularity among Bulgarians were among those who expressed lower-middle-class views. ... With his Protestant pragmatism, outspoken nationalism and lower-middle-class mor...
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