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Shaggy Muses: The Dogs Who Inspired Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte
by Maureen Adams
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“Youll call this sentimental—perhaps—but then a dog somehow represents the private side of life, the play side,” Virginia Woolf confessed to a friend. In this charming and engaging book, Maureen Adams celebrates this... (read more)

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Russian Literature (Brief Insight)
by Catriona Kelly
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Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet
by Eugene Walter
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From Birdwomen to Skygirls: American Girls' Aviation Stories
by Fred Erisman
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The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships
by Robert B Silvers
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Image in Outline: Reading Lou Andreas-Salom (New Directions in German Studies)
by Gisela Brinker Gabler
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Cavalier History of Surrealism
by Francois Dupuis
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Uses of Literary History
by Marshall Brown
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Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles
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