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paperback. Set during the tenth year of the siege of Troy, this poem of Chaucer relates how Troilus - with the help of Criseyde's wily uncle Pandarus - persuades her to become his lover, only to be betrayed when she is handed over to the Greek camp and yields to Diomede. Editor(s): Windeatt, Barry. Num Pages: 640 pages, appendices, glossary, bibliography. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Publication date
- 2003
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780140424218
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- 9780140424218
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paperback. Heine was a restless and homeless poet, a Jew among Germans, a German in Paris, a rebel among the bourgeoisie and always, as his famous doppelganger poems show, a man divided against himself. This selection, with the German originals accompanied by English prose translations, provides an introduction to Heine. Editor(s): Branscombe, Peter. Translator(s): Branscombe, Peter. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
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- Publication date
- 1987
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780140420982
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- 9780140420982
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paperback. A poem that demonstrates to humanity that in death there is nothing to fear since the soul is mortal, and the world and everything in it is governed by the mechanical laws of nature and not by gods; and that by believing this men can live in peace of mind and happiness. Translator(s): Stallings, Alicia. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
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- 2007
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780140447965
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- 9780140447965
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paperback. This selection of the Byron's poetical works includes such masterpieces as Childe Harold, The Corsair, Manfred, Bebbo, and Don Juan. There are many other less familiar works and shorter lyrics, and Jerome J. McGann's introduction and notes give fascinating insight into Byron's world. Editor(s): McGann, Jerome J. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
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- 2008
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- OUP Oxford
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- New
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- 9780199538782
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- 9780199538782
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paperback. A collection of poems. Num Pages: 464 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Publication date
- 2010
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780143106081
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- 9780143106081
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paperback. A rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of hell. It re-creates for the modern reader the meanings that the poem had for Dante's contemporaries. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
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- New
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- 9780142437223
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- 9780142437223
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mass_market. Takes you on a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. This work includes stories, poems, essays and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. It deals with books from around the world and across many centuries. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
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- 2015
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780141398457
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- 9780141398457
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mass_market. Presents the true horror of the trenches. Series: Penguin Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 161 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
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- 2015
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780141397603
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- 9780141397603
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paperback. Covers radical public poems of Leopardi on history and politics; philosophical satires; his great, dark, despairing odes such as "To Silvia"; and, later masterworks such as "The Setting of the Moon", written not long before Leopardi's death. Translator(s): Galassi, Jonathan. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780141193878
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- 9780141193878
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paperback. C P Cavafy is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a magical interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past. This title includes selected poems of Cavafy. Editor(s): Sharon, Avi. Translator(s): Sharon, Avi. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780141185613
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- 9780141185613
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paperback. Presents chronologically works such as "Paterson", selections from "White Shroud", "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and including the poems "Howl" and "Kaddish" as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg. This volume brings together the personal verse of an American poet. Num Pages: 464 pages, music, portraits. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780141184760
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- 9780141184760
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paperback. Focusing on the conflict between man and nature, this book, in each of its three distinct parts, gives centre stage to a different character from a different century - the last being W G Sebald himself. Translator(s): Hamburger, Michael. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 100.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin
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- New
- SKU
- 9780141003368
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- 9780141003368
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paperback. A selection of the author's early poems, interspersed with his own prose commentary. It tells the story of his love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party in her father's house, through the author's sufferings, to his overwhelming grief at her death, ending with the transformative vision of her in heaven. Translator(s): Reynolds, Barbara. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 92.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780140449471
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- 9780140449471
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paperback. Continuing his soul's search for God, guided by his beloved Beatrice, Dante progresses through the spheres of Paradise. Examining eternal questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, Dante exercised all his learning and wit, wrath and tenderness in his creation of these Christian allegories. Editor(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780140448979
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- 9780140448979
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paperback. Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, this poem transforms the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection. Editor(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Translator(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780140448962
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- 9780140448962
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paperback. Depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. In this title, the author encounters doomed souls including the pagan Aeneas, the liar Odysseus, the suicide Cleopatra, and his own political enemies, damned for their deceit. Editor(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Translator(s): Kirkpatrick, Robin. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Publication date
- 2006
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
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- 9780140448955
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- 9780140448955
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paperback. Dante relates his mystical interpretation of the heavens, and his moment of transcendent glory, as he journeys, first with Beatrice, then alone, toward the Trinity. Including an interpretive commentary, a glossary and bibliography, this translation seeks to clarify the theological themes and make Dante accessible to the English-speaking public. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Publication date
- 1986
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- Penguin Classics
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140444438
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- 9780140444438
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paperback. Beginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment. Editor(s): Musa, Mark. Translator(s): Musa, Mark. Num Pages: 428 pages, illustrations, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 304.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140444421
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- 9780140444421
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paperback. A collection of Ovid's poems that deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity. It features poems such as "Amores" and "Cures for Love". Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 464 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140443608
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- 9780140443608
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paperback. Over a period of 27 years, the author created in this poem a world situated between fantasy and reality: a kaleidoscope of fabulous adventures, monsters, barbaric splendour and romance, all tempered by the unifying personality of the author - his humour and serenity, his humanity and moderation. Editor(s): Reynolds, Barbara. Translator(s): Reynolds, Barbara. Num Pages: 832 pages, illustrations, index. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 50. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140443110
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- 9780140443110
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paperback. Guided by the poet Virgil, the author plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned, who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in his life. Editor(s): Sayers, Dorothy L. Translator(s): Sayers, Dorothy L. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 242.
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- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140440065
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- 9780140440065
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paperback. 'What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?' In this collection, the author's poems, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty", conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss and sadness. Editor(s): Laird, Nick. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 216.
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- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140424744
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- 9780140424744
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paperback. A selection of Rossetti's poems that includes an introduction, a chronology of Rossetti's life and works, and explanatory notes. Editor(s): Roe, Dinah. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140424690
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- 9780140424690
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paperback. 'Nonsense is the breath of my nostrils', wrote Edward Lear (1812-88), and this collection demonstrates the varied ways in which he pursued his philosophy of life. Gently pointing out human follies and the absurdities of the conventional Victorian society in which he lived, Lear's nonsense has enchanted children and adults alike for generations. Editor(s): Noakes, Vivien. Num Pages: 624 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 37. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
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- New
- SKU
- 9780140424652
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- 9780140424652
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