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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-17 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 377
Pages: 377
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-26 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press
The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of
Language: en
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed inThe White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, inUseful Fictions. Why, in particular, a
Language: en
Pages: 366
Pages: 366
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National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibi