APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME & REVELL, DONALD (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press 2004

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SALTER, JAMES

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PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

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ROWLING, J. K. & MINALIMA (Cover & Book Design)

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PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2016

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REED, A. H.

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PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1966

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HOUGH, GRAHAM

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PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1961

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ACKROYD, PETER

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PUBLISHER: Grove Press 1987

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MEADE, DECLAN (ed.) & [JOYCE, JAMES]

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PUBLISHER: The James Joyce Centre 2000

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BOULLY, JENNY

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FRIEDMAN, SANFORD

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PUBLISHER: North Point Press 1984

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TROTT, SUSAN

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PUBLISHER: Gollancz 1981

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HOWES, EDITH

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PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co 1936

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ASHTON, JENNIFER

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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2008

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HOWARD, ROBERT E. & JONES, STEPHEN (Ed & Afterword) & EDWARDS, LES (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: Gollancz 2006

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DE SAINT-EXUPERY, ANTOINE

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PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1944

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DONNE, JOHN & MILGATE, W. (Ed, Intro & Commentary)

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978

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HODSON, ARNOLD W. & NELLEN, A. E. (Ed) & WILLIAMS, Sir RALPH (Introductory Note) & SELOUS, F. C. (Fore)

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PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1914

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AMORY Jr., COPLEY

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PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1928

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ARCHILOCHI, CARMINA & KENNER, HUGH (Fore) & DAVENPORT, GUY (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1964

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REDFERN, WALTER

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PUBLISHER: Legenda / European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford 2001

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RICHETTI, JOHN J.

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PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: philosophy literature writing prose George Berkeley John Locke David Hume