BLECHER, MAX; HEIM, MICHAEL HENRY (transl)

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GORNICK, VIVIAN

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PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002

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DOCTOROW, E L

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MELVILLE, HERMAN; PLOMER, WILLIAM (introd)

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PUBLISHER: Grove Press 1956

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

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TUWHARE, HONE

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CURTHOYS, ANN

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

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FEIST, RAYMOND E & ABRAMS, STEPHEN

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

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KINGSLEY, PETER

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TSUSHIMA, YUKO & HARCOURT, GERALDINE (Trans)

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HOLCROFT, M H

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PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1950

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature essays prose M H Holcroft