Aging, Duration, and the English Novel. Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf, New ed, Paperback - Jacob (Newcastle University) Jewusiak

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Publisher: Anglo-Saxon BooksAuthor(s): Stephen PollingtonNumber of pages: 233Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 148 x 210 x 14Cover type: Paperback ...

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