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The Sense of Style

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like

How to Write Like a Writer

Ian Rankin

Imágenes, letras y argumentos

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2 Pac Hommage Poétique : Âme et Asphalte The Mika King

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Introdução à semiologia investigativa

Terrorism and Literature

Jean Genet und der revolutionäre Diskurs in seinem historischen Kontext

HUMAN NATURE IN THE BIBLE

Chasing the Sun

Lesen im dritten Lebensalter

Levelling and diffusion in the Cumbrian city dialect of Carlisle

James Sallis

A Bibliographical Companion

Eclectically Poetic

La Morale contemporaine: Tome 1

Reading Fiona Sampson

The Shadow-Line

The Diary

Pauza de ceai la pian