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“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
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Edward Hopper as Home and Homesickness
Hopper's reception abroad
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Elizabeth Bishop, Valentine
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Emily Dickinson, Valentine
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Erika and Envy
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Etheridge Knight, Valentine
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Today, the mesmeric hold that Rupert Murdoch came to exercise over British public life has been broken.
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Exploding the Canon: On the African Writers Series
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The Education of a Vietnamese American Writer
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The Educational Lottery
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