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I CANNOT LIVE WITH YOU

GENDER, CLASS, AND IDENTITY IN ALICE WALKER’S THE COLOR PURPLE AND SUZAN-LORI PARKS’ IN THE BLOOD


THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER


A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN

Heart of Darkness

D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers

Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf

W. B. Yeats and Modernist Poetry

A Fine Balance

Anita and Me

The Namesake

Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Biographia Literaria

VIRGINIA WOOLF: MODERN FICTION

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Principles of Literary Criticism

THE HERESY OF PARAPHRASE


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