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    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
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  • Cormac McCarthy

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  • The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

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  • A Companion to Mark Twain

    Edición de Peter Messent, Louis J. Budd ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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  • The Hessian: The Classic Novel with a New Foreword

    de Howard Fast ...
    Originally published in 1972, The Hessian tells the story of the capture, trial, and execution of a Hessian drummer boy by Americans during the Revolution. At the heart of the story is a Quaker family, who hide the boy after his landing party has been killed in an ambush. Because the captain of the Hessians had ordered the hanging of a local whom he thought might be a spy, the town militia lay in ... Leer más

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  • Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America

    Series series Gender and Culture Series
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

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