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Владимир Набоков - Лаура и её оригинал/The Original of Laura

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Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer's Fecopoetics

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Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy

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Dan Brown - The Lost Symbol

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Умберто Эко - Таинственное пламя царицы Лоаны

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Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World

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Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society

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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

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The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

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Harold Bloom - The Anxiety of Influence

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Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

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Archaeological Chemistry

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Nazi Cinema as Enchantment

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The Opera Lover's Companion

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The Media City

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