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Frank Aitken - History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco
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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov - Hero of Our Time (Version 2)
One of the iconic characters of all Russian literature, Grigori Aleksandrovich Pechorin is the ultimate “superfluous man.” An aristocratic rake who loves the game of manipulating the lives of those around him, he...
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Marguerite of Navarre - Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4
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William Simonds - Student's History of American Literature
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