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Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 820.903 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
LCC: PR463 .P4 — Language and Literature English English Literature By period Modern 19th century

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Published: 1961
Genres: Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS: 820.903
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