MAYAKOVSKY, VLADIMIR; HAYWARD, MAX & REAVEY, GEORGE (transl); BLAKE, PATRICIA (ed)

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PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1975

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DUBIE, NORMAN

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PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company 1989

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PALEY, GRACE

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PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1985

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KUNDERA, MILAN; ASHER, LINDA (transl)

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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1996

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KIPLING, RUDYARD & MORPURGO, MICHAEL (Intro) & PUTTAPIPAT, NIROOT (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2012

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CURTHOYS, ANN

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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2002

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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM & JOHNSON, SAMUEL (Text) & STEEVENS, GEORGE (Text) & REED, ISAAC (Text)

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PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme 1807

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WILDE, OSCAR & WALKER, R A (Trans & Intro) & BEARDSLEY, AUBREY (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1957

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DUMESNIL, MAURICE

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PUBLISHER: Jarrolds 1933

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TEZUKA, OSAMU & MORIMOTO, MARI (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Vertical Inc. 2010

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TSIOLKAS, CHRISTOS & McGAHAN, ANDREW & GRENVILLE, KATE & MILLER, ALEX

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KINGSLEY, PETER

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PUBLISHER: The Golden Sufi Center 2003

KEYWORDS: parmenides empedocles reality philosophy literature spirituality

TSUSHIMA, YUKO & HARCOURT, GERALDINE (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: Kodansha International 1983

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HOLCROFT, M H

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PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1950

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HILL, GEOFFREY

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PUBLISHER: Penguin 2006

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BARRY, SEBASTIAN

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PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2006

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PAZ, OCTAVIO & WEINBERGER, ELIOT (Trans)

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PUBLISHER: New Directions 1991

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ALMANSI, GUIDO & BEGUIN, CLAUDE

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PUBLISHER: Picador / Pan Books 1986

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HOOVER, COLLEEN

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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 2022

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PROULX, ANNIE

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PUBLISHER: Scribner 2008

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