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John Ruskin
Samuel Johnson
Callas kissed me... Lenny too!
Counterpath
Tokyo Central
On familiar terms
The boy who loved books
Fifth row center
Dostoyevsky. Notes From Underground / White Nights / The Dream of a Ridiculous Man / Selections from The House of the Dead
The Gatekeeper
Scenes of instruction
The dream of the golden mountains
Coleridge
Roland Barthes, the professor of desire
Chronic City
John Ruskin
Intentions
Making it
The life of Ezra Pound
Myself and Michael Innes
Collected Letters, 1898-1910
Rebecca's vest
Letters of John Ruskin to Charles Eliot Norton, volume 1
The story & the fable
The personal history of Samuel Johnson
The life and work of John Ruskin
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
An autobiography
G.H. Lewes
A study of Swinburne
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