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    Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers

    By C. K. Stead

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    A collection of 47 essays, lectures, reviews and articles covering a wide variety of topics, ranging from Yeats and Katherine Mansfield to Booker Prizewinners Peter Carey and Keri Hulme.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuckland University Press
    Release dateJan 1, 1989
    ISBN9781775580171
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