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Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read
Virginia Woolf, Francesca Wade
An Autobiography
Agatha Christie
Racing the Devil
Charles Todd
The Life of Elizabeth I
Alison Weir
Elizabeth of York
Advance Britannia
Alan Allport
Word by Word
Kory Stamper
Carry On
Rainbow Rowell
Tell Me I'm Worthless
Alison Rumfitt
American Literary Cultures
Elizabeth J. Dell, Joe B. Fulton
Nourishing Narratives
Jennifer L. Holberg
On Frost and Eliot
William H. Pritchard
The Button Man
Mark Pryor
Charlotte Brontë Revisited
Sophie Franklin