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The Compunctious Poet

by Ross Brann

Recommendations from our site

Other books by Ross Brann

Power in the Portrayal by Ross Brann

Our most recommended books

Middlemarch by George Eliot

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Power in the Portrayal
by Ross Brann

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Dracula
by Bram Stoker