Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893 (Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism)

✍ Scribed by Benjamin A Railton

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 327
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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