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Hölderlin's Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806–1843 (The Italian List) By Giorgio Agamben, Alta L. Price (Translated by) Cover Image
By Giorgio Agamben, Alta L. Price (Translated by)
$25.00
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Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics) By Leo Tolstoy, Rosamund Bartlett (Translator) Cover Image
By Leo Tolstoy, Rosamund Bartlett (Translator)
$24.95
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection By Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (Editor) Cover Image
$29.95
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The Sherlock Holmes Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) By Leslie S. Klinger (Foreword by), DK Cover Image
By Leslie S. Klinger (Foreword by), DK
$25.00
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Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph By Lucasta Miller Cover Image
$32.50
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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter By Gary Saul Morson Cover Image
$37.95
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Conversations with Goethe: In the Last Years of His Life By Johann Peter Eckermann, Allan Blunden (Translated by), Ritchie Robertson (Introduction by), Ritchie Robertson (Notes by) Cover Image
By Johann Peter Eckermann, Allan Blunden (Translated by), Ritchie Robertson (Introduction by), Ritchie Robertson (Notes by)
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Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem By Jennifer L. Fleissner Cover Image
$45.50
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Why Read Moby-Dick? By Nathaniel Philbrick Cover Image
$16.00
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Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems By Stephanie Burt Cover Image
$18.99
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The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery: The Pei Years, 1900-1911 By Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Hillman Waterston Cover Image
$27.44
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Strange Laughter: Early Penny Bloods and Humour By Celine Frohn Cover Image
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