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Don Quijote de la Mancha
The Hobbit
The cast of character
Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
New Voices in the American Theatre
Harry Potter and the Bible
Shakespeare's tragic heroes
Chandlertown
Arthur Conan Doyle and the meaning of masculinity
Harry Potter Film Wizardry
The Jew of Malta
Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt revealed
EVE WAS FRAMED
Women's matters
The Sharpe Companion
Women in Beckett
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels
A Shavian guide to the intelligent woman
Postmodern Pooh
Giants in those days
A Pokémon Snow-down - #8 Pokémon Junior
Who's who in George Eliot
Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street
D.H. Lawrence and the child
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street
The Hornblower companion
Report from the gallows
Charles Dickens and the law
Who's who in Shakespeare
Regarding Penelope
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