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200703451 07/13/2020 English College What does the author mean when he says that George Tomkyns Chesney, the author of "The Battle of Dorking," was "not motivated by literary ambition"?
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What does the author mean when he says that George Tomkyns Chesney, the author of "The Battle of Dorking," was "not motivated by literary ambition"?

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When the author says "was not motivated by literary ambition", the author means that they did not have anything to write about something that happened. Basically they didn't have much to go off of.

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