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The Robert B. Parker Companion
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The American Puritan Elegy
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Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity
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CliffsNotes The Taming of the Shrew
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The Twentieth Century in Poetry
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The Anti-Jacobin Novel
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Space, Time, and Infinity: Essays on Fantastic Literature
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Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran
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Intertextuality
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Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf
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Romanticism
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What's Left of Theory?
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Magical Worlds of Lord of the Rings, The: The Amazing Myths, Legends, and Facts Behind the Masterpiece
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Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison
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After the War: Contents, Introduction, Biographies
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