Explorers and Artists in the Valley of the Kings

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The west bank of the Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, often referred to as western Thebes, is probably the richest archaeological site in the world. This area has attracted travelers since ancient times, and many have left their impressions of the monuments in the form of graffiti, historical texts, scholarly books, and travel guides. Beginning even before Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798, which included a large group of scholars, architects, artists, and scientists, Europeans flocked to visit and record the ruins of ancient Thebes. Independent scholars such as John Gardiner Wilkinson lived at Thebes for extended periods; professional Egyptologists such as Jean-Francois Champollion, Ippolito Rosellini, and Karl Richard Lepsius organized scholarly expeditions to the site. The beauty of the landscape and monuments such as the Colossi of Memnon, the Ramesseum, and the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings also inspired poets, writers, and artists such as the romantic painter David Roberts, who published more than 100 works, many based on sketches done at Thebes. Explorers and Artists in the Valley of the Kings presents some of the wealth of etchings, sketches, and watercolors that were produced by European travelers to western Thebes between about 1740 and 1860 and tells the story of Europe's rediscovery of the ancient civilization of Egypt.

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Disappointed.......2007-05-27

I love the concept of this book and I wanted to like the execution but I didn't. The author depended upon volunteers so she got what she got. I was seriously distracted by the cracked, broken, dirty fingernails. If the models couldn't wash their hands, what else did they neglect? I'm sorry but I kept thanking god these were only pictures.

I love my Vulva.......2007-02-07

I really enjoyed watching it, I have only glanced through it the first time, but it was exiting to see different colors, shapes, piercings. As a woman I have never gotten to see that many vulvas, maybe 3 including my own in a mirror.
It is really enjoyable and I like it that is non threatening, not pornography, it is what it is, and I feel that is very needed and refreshing. Female genitals are not outside, straightforward like males, so, you never really get to see it even if you are in a room full of naked women, Femalia is a good tool to know more about yourself and if you don't know anything, it will be a good tool to start knowing something!

Celebrate it if you have one!! Every one is sacred.......2007-01-04

I Love this book, but maybe not as much as some of my friends who's comments inspired me to have a look at it. I am a bloke, I spend a fair amount of my time in nudist environments and most of my intimate partners have been pretty uninhibited (outdoors in daylight as opposed to at home with the lights out). A conversation amongst some female friends made me realize that I had been very `up-close' with a variety of female genitals in full light and that for most of these girls, that was something they had never experienced, being mostly straight and often not even having just studied the centre of their own womanhood over a mirror. I felt like I had taken so much for granted, the sacred centre of womanhood that has been the focus of so much since before recorded history, yet for some of those for whom this was part of their physical body they hardly had enough knowledge to recognize it if they were looking at it. Yet for me, as a bloke, I'd had partners with genitals more like tight lipless pores to one who would joke about the size of her `saddlebags' and I'd had the opportunity to explore them all in detail.

The one thing every one of those vulva, vaginas, clitorises and collective genitals had in common was they were each a major part of a woman's sexuality, part of the physical vehicle to many and much so much more powerful than the `mere physical', part of the Esoteric and the Mystic, the Sacred, the Wicca, so much a part of the powers we still cannot fathom-the soul moving experience of Childbirth, the power of Orgasm and the strength of Motherhood.

This book is not a `turn-on', not at the superficial level anyway, but more a celebration of the holy of holies and may move you at a deeper level if you are in tune to the power and sanctity represented.

I hope every woman who flicks through this accepts and Loves themselves and their own body more as a result. Regardless of age, race, size of labia, or anything else, if you land next to me on the beach, be proud of just exactly who you are and the altar in the centre of your temple of womanhood. My banal and purely functional penis next to your `Femalia' will be humbled alongside all of what your womanhood represents. Cheers. Lloyd

OR the Vagina is just another part of the female anatomy..........2006-07-16

Don't buy this book for pleasure seeking purposes.
It is an informational pictography. It basically states through photographs "Here are a few of the many forms the vagina can take."
I disagree strongly with one review that states 'Femalia' has the same stuff as adult magazines. Here there is NO exploitation or degredation. Regardless of the argument if this exists in adult porn, this book offers no seduction; no fantasy.
Complaint: there is at least one duplicate vagina in different 'poses'. I wish the book's supporters didn't rave about the variety. Yes, there are differences in sizes and shapes, just as there in people in a small group of people found anywhere. I find it void of 'personality' and true diversity of women on the planet or simply in the US. Hopefully there will be another one which includes greater variety.

Fascinating, shows off the variety of female genitalia.......2006-05-16

These photographs are fascinating. The female genitalia are at once the most provocative, and the least depicted, part of the human anatomy. I know of nowhere else you can see the great variety of size, shape and color. THANK YOU to the women who agreed to be photographed. People DO want to know. Let this last taboo against the veneration of womens bodies be abolished.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs` legendary Tarzan stories continue with two of his greatest! In Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan defends his jungle home from invaders during World War I and then must protect an Englishman and a German spy from a lost civilization of lion-men! And in Tarzan the Terrible, the lord of the apes embarks on a desperate search for his wife Jane, captured by Germans--and discovers a hidden land where strange dinosaurs and beast-men roam the earth! These classic stories are packaged in a handy, compact size and are completely re-colored using state-of-the-art digital techniques.

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Russ Manning's stellar adaptation of two ERB Tarzan novels.......2005-01-17

Russ Manning (1929-1981) is best remembered for being the artist for the syndicated daily and Sunday "Tarzan" comic strips in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as being the creator of " Magnus, Robot Fighter" for Gold Key comic in 1963. While his artwork on Tarzan was not as great as that of Hal Foster and Burne Hogarth, his storytelling skills were slightly stronger than those legendary artists. More importantly, when Manning was picked by ERB, Inc. to do the daily and Sunday "Tarzan" strips for the United Feature Syndicate, he brought the character back to the vision of the character Edgar Rice Burroughs had developed in his novels, especially the early ones.

"Tarzan the Untamed," which Manning wrote and illustrated, with the assistance of artist Bill Stout actually combines two of ERB's novels, "Tarzan the Untamed" and "Tarzan the Terrible." The stories take place during World War I, when German troops were invading English colonies in Africa in 1914. Burroughs had come to believe that La, the High Priestess of Opar, was a better mate for Tarzan than Jane Clayton, and so he had Tarzan return to his jungle estate in British East Africa to find the burnt corpse of his wife. The only way he can recognize her is by the ring on her finger. Cursing the Germans, Tarzan swears vengeance and leaves behind the trappings of civilization, heading off to kill Hauptmann Fritz Schneider and every German soldier he can find..

This is an unusual Tarzan story, because usually the plot of one of ERB's pulp-fiction yarns is that the hero is trying to rescue his beloved from a land of strange people and creatures. But "Tarzan the Untamed" is a revenge story as the King of the Jungle displays the same sort of animal cunning and creative cruelty that he displayed as a youth in "Tarzan of the Apes" (I especially like the scene in the trenches). It is not until the end of the first half of the story that Tarzan discovers Jane is alive and the prisoner of the Germans. At that point we get to Manning's adaptation of "Tarzan the Terrible," where rescuing his wife finally becomes more important than getting revenge. Of course, Tarzan manages to do both, as well as dealing with a lost civilization of lion men and another one of those hidden lands where dinosaurs still roam the earth. Manning does have to sanitize the original stories a bit, which contained some of the most graphic scenes in all of ERB's work, but we still get the sense that this is not the same Tarzan who played with Cheetah in all of those Johnny Weismueller movies. On balance, "Tarzan the Untamed" is an excellent adaptation of those two Burroughs novels, much better in that regard than anything we have seen in any Tarzan film.

"Tarzan the Untamed," which features cover art by Mark Schultz, is one of four volumes of reprints of Manning's great work on the Tarzan comic strip that Dark Horse has published as graphic stories, the others being "Tarzan of the Apes," "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar," and the 1999 Eisner Award-winning "Tarzan in the Land That Time Forgot." Manning's artwork has been completely re-colored using the impressive digital techniques that we have seen in other Dark Horse reprints. Still to be reprinted in the United States are "Tarzan in Savage Pellucidar" and "Tarzan and the Beastmaster," but I have to think those will be forthcoming at some point in the relatively near future.

Another Great Adaptation from Russ Manning.......2004-01-21

I always loved Russ Manning's artwork when I was a comic collector. It's a shame that he died so young and before he really received the credit for his great artwork that he so deserved. And the problem was, in the sixties and seventies it was often hard to find. "Magnus," his futuristic series was published quarterly and so I could only look forward it four times a year. His Tarzan work was more plentiful, but even so, Gold Key Comics apparently did not have the greatest distribution in the world so I often would miss an issue. Thankfully, Dark Horse is collecting some of Manning's work on Tarzan in this volume and others like it.

This volume collects Russ Manning's adaptations of "Tarzan the Untamed" and "Tarzan the Terrible." Both are notable for taking place during World War I and the fact that Tarzan battles Germans. "Tarzan the Terrible" would become one in a long line of a recurring theme for Burroughs-- Tarzan discovering a lost land. Hey, it worked over-and-over again throughout the run of Tarzan. As usual, the art is beautifully rendered.

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Tarzan the Untamed
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: B000K8GTX4

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Tarzan meets World War I

Tarzan the Untamed tracks down the killers of Jane

As good as the others

Tarzan the Untamed
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Waking Lion Press
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In Tarzan the Untamed, the seventh book in the Tarzan series, Tarzan swears vengeance against the murderers of his wife as the conflagration of the Great War begins burning a swathe through British East Africa. The quintessential novel of the Lord of the Apes.

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Kudu, the sun, was well up in the heavens when Tarzan awoke. The ape-man stretched his giant limbs, ran his fingers through his thick hair, and swung lightly down to earth. Immediately he took up the trail he had come in search of, following it by scent down into a deep ravine. Cautiously he went now, for his nose told him that the quarry was close at hand, and presently from an overhanging bough he looked down upon Horta, the boar, and many of his kinsmen.

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Tarzan meets World War I.......2007-07-03

It took me a while to get into this book, but once Bertha Kircher really started making her presence known I was very interested.

In this novel we have the 'death' of Jane, and Tarzan's return to the jungle, but fate has other things in mind. World War I has made itself known in Africa, and Tarzan gets embroiled in things.

Bertha Kircher, is a german double agent that Tarzan is forced throughout the novel to rescue over and over again and respect as well--as she rescues him many times. He hates her though, because she is German.

I was excited with this premise because here was a man right in the middle of World War 1 setting up a very strong female and German character. However, the last page of the book ruined this for me. Because instead of being a new lesson on how there could be one good person, or something to admire in a people, it is instead about Burroughs usual schtick, on blue-blood running true.

There are a few new jungle people in this book as well, an odd tribe that is insane--Burroughs uses outdated science to describe how Tarzan and others can recognize these people's madness. Facial and scull structure, posture, etc.

This is very much a book of its time, as Burroughs was very much a man of his time. Its an interesting story and one that would be interesting to study from a social/historical stand point. But most importantly its a good adventure book.

Tarzan the Untamed tracks down the killers of Jane.......2003-09-13

Edgar Rice Burroughs was less than impressed with Jane as the mate for Tarzan thinking that La, the High Priestess of Opar was a better match. With the Germans making themselves international bad guys by starting the First World War, ERB took advantage of their moving against British possessions in Africa to kill off Jane in this seventh novel in the Tarzan series. "Tarzan the Untamed" was first published as a six-part serial in "The Red Book Magazine" in 1919 with the story continued as "Tarzan and the Valley of Luna" in a five-part serial in "All-Story Weekly" in 1920. The result is one of the most atypical Burroughs pulp fiction yarns, in which the standard romantic adventure has the hero (whether he is Tarzan, Korak, John Carter, David Innes, etc.) pursuing his beloved (Jane, Miriam, Dejah Thoris, etc.) across a dangerous environment (darkest Africa, Barsoom, Pellucidar, etc.). But in "Tarzan the Untamed," the hero is out for revenge. The result is arguably ERB's best Tarzan novel, past paced and with a prose style that rises above his average effort.

This is amply proven in the opening chapter. Hauptmann Fritz Schneider and his men stumble upon the estate of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, in British East Africa in the fall of 1914. Tarzan and his son, Korak, are away, and Lady Jane does not know that war has broken out between German and the British Empire, so she welcomes them to her home. Meanwhile, Tarzan learns of the war in Nairobi and hurries home only to find the smoking ruins of his estate when he returns. Wasimbu, the son of Muviro, has been crucified on the wall, and the rest of the natives are all dead. Tarzan also finds the charred body of his wife, recognizable only the rings on her fingers. Cursing the Germans, Tarzan swears vengeance and leaves behind the trappings of civilization. During a tremendous thunderstorm, Tarzan kills a leopard, symbolizing the return of the Lord of the Jungle--and this is just the first chapter.

Tarzan heads south into German East Africa and almost immediately begins wrecking havoc on the Germans, displaying same sort of animal cunning and creative cruelty that he displayed as a youth in "Tarzan of the Apes" (and covered a bit as well in "The Jungle Tales of Tarzan"). Even encountering an entrenched German army does not stop Tarzan from getting his revenge on his enemy. Eventually he finds an English flier, Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick, who is captured by cannibals and in need of rescue, and who becomes the character who argues, rather unconvincingly I might add, for Tarzan to be civilized in his one-man war against the Germans. But nothing is going to stop Tarzan from hunting down every last one of the invaders who destroyed his home and killed his wife. Of course, the circumstances of Jane's death lead us to suspect the surprise that awaits Tarzan at the end of this adventure and which sets up the next novel, "Tarzan the Terrible."

As good as the others.......2001-10-04

It's very good and keeps you in the plot but try not to judge it by today's standards. The language shows what we would call today bigotry, prejudice and racism

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Tarzan the Untamed tracks down the killers of Jane

Tarzan The Untamed

Manufacturer: BookSurge Classics
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1594568243
Release Date: 2004-02-02

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Tarzan the Untamed tracks down the killers of Jane.......2004-06-15

The Tarzan series does become extremely formulaic by the time you get halfway through the twenty-four volumes, but it is worthwhile to at least make you way through the first eight volumes (maybe a bit further, especially if you like lions). "Tarzan the Terrible" is perhaps the quintessential Tarzan novel and the original "Tarzan of the Apes" is the one essential ERB novel to read, but I would agree that "Tarzan the Untamed" is the best yarn in the bunch. Final Note: Not surprisingly, this Tarzan novel was not well received in post-war Germany and effectively ended the publication of Burroughs' work in that country.

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Tarzan the Untamed (Book #7)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Ballantine
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0345241665

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Tarzan the Untamed, Large-Print Edition
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Waking Lion Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1600963331
Release Date: 2006-07-17

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Tarzan 2-in-1 (Tarzan the Untamed & Tarzan the Terrible) (Tarzan the Classics)

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The Dell Comics Tarzan: Tarzan the Untamed/Tarzan the Terrible
Two of the best Tarzan novels
2 GREAT ADVENTURE STORIES
The best in the series!
Good to see these back in print!

Tarzan 2-in-1 (Tarzan the Untamed & Tarzan the Terrible) (Tarzan the Classics)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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ASIN: 0345408322
Release Date: 1997-01-29

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TARZAN THE UNTAMED

With the speed of the great apes, Tarzan rushed through the jungle toward his home and family. But he was already too late. The marauders had been there before him. His farm was in shambles and no one was left alive. Silently, he swore his terrible vengeance against those who had done this monstrous deed. Then he set out grimly to track them . . . through warring armies . . . across a vast desert that no man had ever crossed . . . and to a strange valley where only madmen lived.

TARZAN THE TERRIBLE

Lieutenant Obergatz had fled in terror from the seeking vengeance of Tarzan of the Apes. And with him, by force, he had taken Tarzan's beloved mate, Jane. Now the ape-man was following the faint spoor of their flight, into a region no man had ever penetrated. The trail led across seemingly impassable marshes into Pal-ul-don--a savage land where primitive Waz-don and Ho-don fought fiercely, wielding knives with their long, prehensile tails--and where mighty triceratops still survived from the dim dawn of time . . .

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The Dell Comics Tarzan: Tarzan the Untamed/Tarzan the Terrible.......2006-12-13

It is commonly agreed among ERB fans that Tarzan the Untamed and Tarzan the Terrible are two of the best books of the series. They make a pair that complete a whole story, but can be read separately as well. The only thing I wanted to add to the discussion is the fact that Tarzan the Terrible is the ONLY novel in which the lost land of Pal-ul-don appears. This land was greatly expanded and mined to completion in the 1950's Dell Tarzan comics. So, if you were a fan of that old Dell Tarzan, at least Tarzan the Terrible deserves a reading. As mentioned by others, these two stories are filled with action and adventure and, I believe, would find a readership among kids today if only the books were carried by more book stores.

Two of the best Tarzan novels.......1999-10-14

These are two of the best Tarzan novels, filled with everything that Burroughs does best: action, mystery, romance, lost cities... TARZAN THE TERRIBLE is the direct sequel to TARZAN THE UNTAMED, and anyone who has read these books will want to get a copy of Philip Jose Farmer's THE DARK HEART OF TIME: A TARZAN NOVEL, which takes place chronologically in between these two amazing books.

2 GREAT ADVENTURE STORIES.......1999-09-01

These are two of the best books ERB wrote in the series. Although "Tarzan of the Apes" is the undisputed best novel of the series, quite possibly a literary masterpiece, these two have even more adventure, action, and clever plot twists than the original. I think "Tarzan the Terrible" is an overall better read, but the final few chapters of "Tarzan the Untamed", in Xuja, city of the mad, is my favorite part of the entire series. I enjoyed it better than Opar, Ashair, or any of the other lost cities ERB created. I wish he had set the entire novel there. If you're an adventure or Tarzan fan you can't miss these two stories. They're the 7th and 8th books in the series and still have aspects of Tarzan being fresh in his creator's mind. The latter books are all good, but they remind me alot of another series, my favorite, the Gor series by John Norman. The first books are outstanding, but the series begin to get repetitive as though the authors used up all their good ideas and are recycling them with different but similiar settings and characters and the storylines follow much of the same course as the previous ones. The only negative thing I can say about the Tarzan series, if indeed you even consider this negative, is that coincidence seems to play much too big of a role. Everyone in the story will somehow end up in the same place at the same time no matter what they've been through and where they've been. But I guess that's what helps make them enjoyable. It all works out. If you like the Tarzan series I recommend two other books by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "The Outlaw of Torn", a medieval tale and "I Am a Barbarian", a tale of the mad Roman emperor Caligula. I also recommend the Gor series by John Norman(the ones with Tarl Cabot in them anyway) and anything by Robert E. Howard.

The best in the series!.......1999-08-02

These two novels in my opinion were the best in all of the 22 book series. Tarzan goes from fighting germans to fighting prehistoric people and animals in a lost land. How does it get any better than that? And the Jane thing is cool! A must read for ultimate action/adventure readers.

Good to see these back in print!.......1997-06-19

These two stories are, in my humble opinion, the two best works of ERB in the Tarzan series. Very nice plot twists (as opposed to the rather contrived ones later on) and a great deal of background into the settings (example: the Ho-don and Waz-don dialect dictionary in Tarzan the Terrible)make these two "must own" books.

If you're looking for a great way to while away some time or, even better, find a good book for a young reader - I urge you to strongly buy this book!

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Tarzan the Untamed (Tarzan #7)

Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345230051

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Fiction, Adventure, Tarzan, Science Fiction

BURROUGHS BULLETIN - New Series Number 26 - Spring 1996: Keys to Tarzan the Untamed; Olympic Love Affair; The Incomparable Hogarth; Burne Hogarth Interview; Three Days in Pellucidar; The Toy Scene; Tarzan: The Epic Adventure

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BURROUGHS BULLETIN - New Series Number 26 - Spring 1996: Keys to Tarzan the Untamed; Olympic Love Affair; The Incomparable Hogarth; Burne Hogarth Interview; Three Days in Pellucidar; The Toy Scene; Tarzan: The Epic Adventure
George C. (editor) (re: Edgar Rice Burroughs) McWhorter
Manufacturer: The Burroughs Bibliophiles
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I9G0WK

TARZAN of the Apes; Return; Beasts; Son; Jungle Tales; Untamed; Terrible; Golden Lion; Ant Men; Lord of the Jungle; Lost Empire; Earth's Core; Invincible; Triumphant; City of Gold; Lion Man; Leopard Men; Quest; Forbidden City; Magnificent; Foreign Legion

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TARZAN of the Apes; Return; Beasts; Son; Jungle Tales; Untamed; Terrible; Golden Lion; Ant Men; Lord of the Jungle; Lost Empire; Earth's Core; Invincible; Triumphant; City of Gold; Lion Man; Leopard Men; Quest; Forbidden City; Magnificent; Foreign Legion
Edgar Rice (with Fritz Leiber) Burroughs
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OQ0DN4

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Hee Hee Hee!!.......2007-03-14

Great book!! Very funny -- and.. as an author -- makes me believe that there is hope for ME!

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Rotten Rejections: A Literary Companion
Andre (edited by) Bernard
Manufacturer: Pushcart Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OKD7BK

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