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The Sense of Style

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Arthurian Legend in the Seventeenth Century

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Anne Staël: Deutschland – Band 193e in der gelben Buchreihe – bei Jürgen Ruszkowski

Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater

Traité élémentaire de la peinture

A CRITIQUE OF BERTRAND RUSSELL’S NEUTRAL MONISTIC PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory

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Film Propaganda and American Politics

Hovedstrømninger i det 19. århundredes litteratur. Bind 6. Det unge Tyskland

Chinese Literature

Geschichte der Päpste seit 1800

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Chaucer

Die chinesische Messaging-App WeChat als virtuelle Sprachinsel

Sprache und Kommunikation in der beruflichen Aus- und Weiterbildung

Fremdsprachliches Lernen und Gestalten nach dem Storyline Approach in Schule und Hochschule

Changing Subjects

21st-Century Gothic