Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
Discover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
Discover one of the most famous and ground-breaking pieces of twentieth century literature about one day in the mind of woman as she prepares to give a party.
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EVERYMAN, 1993
Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better and better with every reading.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1992
Virginia Woolf's second novel, is both a love story and a social comedy in the tradition of Jane Austen; yet it also questions that tradition, recognizing that the goals of society and the individual may not necessarily coincide.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2019
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court.
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008
According to Virginia Woolf, the goal of the essay 'is simply that it should give pleasure...It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last.'
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PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023
'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'.
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ALMA BOOKS, 2024
As Mabel Waring takes off her cloak and steps into the drawing room of Clarissa Dalloway, she immediately realizes that something is not right:
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
The Waves, more than any opf Virginia Woolf's other novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2002
The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century.
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ALMA BOOKS, 2022
Rich in symbolism, daring in style, elegiac in tone and encapsulating Virginia Woolf’s ideas on life, art and human relationships, To the Lighthouse is a landmark of twentieth-century literature and one of the high points of early Modernism.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends.
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VINTAGE CLASSICS, 2019
Woolf’s textured prose invites us into each of the characters’ minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the lighthouse.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2000
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness.
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LUMEN, 2024
El ensayo sobre la condición de la mujer que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura y del feminismo.
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LE LIVRE DE POCHE, 2017
Quand Julia débarque comme psychologue a la maison de retraite Les Tamaris, elle ne croit plus guere au bonheur.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2016
Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate.
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ARSISBOOKS, 2017
V romane Vladimira Medvedeva "Zaxxok" ozhivaet ekzoticheskij i strashnyj mir Tsentralnoj Azii.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
The collection displays Nabokov's astonishing range of technical and formal inventiveness
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2008
Written in Berlin in 1934, Invitation to a Beheading contains all the surprise, excitement and magical intensity of a work created in two brief weeks of sustained inspiration.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her.
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ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1992
Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'.
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PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2023
Thirteen ingeniously crafted stories make up Vladimir Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
When Lolita was first published in 1955 it created a sensation and established Nabokov as one of the most original prose writers of the twentieth century.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2007
Nabokov's first novel written in English, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a nuanced, enigmatic potrayal of the conflict between the real and the unreal, and the futile quest for human truth.
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AST, 2021
Vladimir Papernyj — kulturolog, istorik arkhitektury, dizajner, pisatel. Ego kniga o stalinskoj arkhitekture "Kultura Dva" stala intellektualnym bestsellerom.Los-Andzheles. Emigrant Aleksandr Shults, Shusha, neozhidanno poluchaet posylku.
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ACT, 2015
Suprotivnykh mnogo, eto verno. Kak tolko vosstala Rossija iz pepla Serogo, kak tolko osoznala sebja, kak tolko shestnadtsat let nazad zalozhil Gosudarev batjushka Nikolaj Platonovich...
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IZDATELSTVO "E", 2017
Imperator Nikolaj I vo vremja predstavlenija "Revizora" khlopal i mnogo smejalsja, a vykhodja iz lozhi, skazal: "Nu, peska! Vsem dostalos, a mne — bolee vsekh!"
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AST, 2021
Dejstvie novogo romana Evgenija Vodolazkina razvorachivaetsja na Ostrove, kotorogo net na karte, no suschestvovanie ego ne vyzyvaet somnenij.
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POCKET, 2019
Comme disait parfois son précepteur Pangloss, si Candide n'avait pas été chassé d'un beau château a grands coups de pied au derriere pour l'amour de mademoiselle Cunégonde,
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LIBRIO, 2000
Formosante est princesse de Babylone. Son pere veut trouver un époux digne d'elle. Toute la noblesse de l'époque défile au palais : le pharaon d'Egypte et son bouf Apis, le roi des Indes, le grand khan des Scythes...
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2002
This classic collection of stories moves from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. It includes the famous story 'Rain', the tragedy of a narrow-minded and overzealous missionary and a prostitute,...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
The stories in this collection move from Malaya to America and England, and include some of Maugham's most famous tales; 'Flotsam and Jetsam', the story of an old woman trapped for years in a loveless marriage in the remote rubber plantations; ...
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2002
This final classic collection of stories reveals Somerset Maugham's unique talent for exposing and exploring the bitter realities of human relationships.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy. It discusses the writings of St. Teresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and...
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2000
Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness,,....
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2001
Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2001
Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2005
Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. But a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that shatters her serenity.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1985
Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands.
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ANACONDA VERLAG GMBH, 2024
Sleepy Hollow ist eine schaurige Schlucht im Staat New York. Dort treibt der Geist eines ehemaligen Söldners sein Unwesen.
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INSEL VERLAG, 2009
Washington Irving ist der »Erfinder« und erster Vertreter der amerikanischen Short story. Vor allem seine unheimlichen Geschichten wie Die Legende von Sleepy Hollow und Rip van Winkle sind bis heute äußerst populär und wurden mehrfach verfilmt.
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Ein Bahnangestellter bemerkt am Heiligabend eine defekte Schienenstrecke, doch niemand schenkt ihm Gehör.
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PANMACMILLAN, 2009
Sean Courtney, who made and lost ?5 million on the goldfields of the Witwatersrand and fought his way through the bloody battlefields of the Anglo-Boer War, now makes his final appearance as soldier, statesman and power in the land.
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PAN BOOKS, 2015
The Angels Weep is the third bestselling book in Wilbur Smith's Ballantyne Novels - an epic exploration into the dark past of colonial Africa.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010
Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed ... Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive ..
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2013
An Ice-cream War is William Boyd's hilarious bestselling novel of love and battle
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2011
This is William Boyd's third volume of short stories following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station (1981) and The Destiny of Nathalie X (1995).
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1988
Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys' public school, oddballs on the seedy side of America, murder in a quiet Devon cottage...
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010
Stars and Bars will be loved by fans of Any Human Heart and A Good Man in Africa, as well as readers of David Nicholls, Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby and Hilary Mantel.
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BLOOMSBURY, 2008
Funny, moving and sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status as one of English fiction's finest writers. Here are twenty-four gripping tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2021
It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control.
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BLOOMSBURY, 2012
Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2009
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer....
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010
A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of Naked Lunch .
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 1986
William Dean Howells' richly humorous characterization of a self-made millionaire in Boston society provides a paradigm of American culture in the Gilded Age.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1995
Narrated by Quentin Compson, the suicide in "The Sound and the Fury", this is the tale of Thomas Sutpen, a poor White who dreams of founding a dynasty.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1996
Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people.
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VINTAGE BOOKS, 2009
This is a collection of the very best of William Faulkner’s short stories.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 1996
Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, INTRUDER IN THE DUST is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil.
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RANDOM HOUSE, 2000
SOLDIER'S PAY was Faulkner's first novel. In the Summer of 1925, working in New Orleans, Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson, who encouraged him to write a novel.
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ROWOHLT TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2003
Gerechtigkeit? Gerechtigkeit gibt's im Jenseits. Hier auf Erden gibt's das Recht. Mit diesen Worten beginnt Gaddis' kafkaesk anmutender Roman, der in einem Amerika spielt, in dem jeder gegen jeden prozessiert.
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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2020
The Recognitions is a sweeping depiction of a world in which everything that anyone recognizes as beautiful or true or good emerges as anything but: our world.
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FABER & FABER, 2013
The second volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.
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ALIANZA EDITORIAL, 2013
Urdida en torno a la situación límite de una treintena de muchachos en una isla desierta, El Senor de las Moscas es una magnífica novela que admite lecturas diferentes e incluso opuestas.
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FABER & FABER, 2013
The third volume of William Golding's Sea Trilogy.
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FABER & FABER, 2022
Sammy Mountjoy is an artist who has risen from poverty to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery.
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FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2017
William Goldings erster und erfolgreichster Roman beschreibt das Ende der Unschuld und ist eine dunkle Parabel auf die verborgene Barbarei zivilisierter Gesellschaften.
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The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2016
As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature.
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HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2013
Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma and finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life he's lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus and a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit.
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WINDBLOWN MEDIA, 2007
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
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HODDER PAPERBACK, 2007
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
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PENGUIN BOOKS, 2010
An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic.
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Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life'
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Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original.
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Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry.
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