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has brought him a wide readership. The books in the series are collections of essays about classic fiction from the
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Literary Lives: Intimate
Biographies of the Famous by the Famous
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Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
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Henry V, War Criminal? & Other Shakespeare Puzzles
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829:The Connell Guide to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
645:Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995
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312:The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
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282:Bestsellers: Popular Fiction of the 1970's
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