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The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors
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Marxism and Literary Criticism
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
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The Gothic Tradition (Cambridge Contexts in Literature)
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Snobbery: The American Version
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Exiled in Paris
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Bnctp: Oliver Twist
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St. Augustine's Confessions (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
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The Tempest (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
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Hamlet (Annotated Shakespeare)
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Funny Bunny Jokes (Laugh-A-Long Readers)
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Essays & Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas Hardy Publisher Comments A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. So begins "The Mayor of Casterbridge." Rich in descriptive powers and steeped in irony, this timeless tale offers a spellbinding...
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Walden (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
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Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature
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You Might Be a Redneck If... (Little Books)
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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens
by Michael Slater Publisher Comments Sets out to capture the leading ideas and beliefs, the artistic ideals and ambitions, that inspired and shaped Dickens' prodigious...
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment (Harvest Books)
by I A Richards Publisher Comments A landmark of twentieth-century criticism that provided new standards and new techniques for examining literature. "Richards is a master of the psychology of criticism" (Saturday Review). Index.<BR>...
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Arco How to Interpret Poetry (Arco How to Interpret Poetry)
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