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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-10 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
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Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new in
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
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Language: en
Pages: 279
Pages: 279
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-15 - Publisher: One World
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