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Genres: Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 813.085 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Romance fiction
LCC: PS374 .E75 .T4 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Prose Prose fiction
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Published: 1987
Genres: Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
DDC/MDS: 813.085
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