Die Jugendentwicklung Der Flechten: Ein Indikator Fur Klimabedingungen Und Umweltbelastung (Bibliotheca Lichenologica)

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One of over 400 titles in the Insight series, Insight Guide Egypt. This 354-page book includes a section detailing Egypt's history, 8 features covering aspects of the country's life and culture, ranging from its spectacular pyramids to its energentic bazaars, a region by region visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive Travel Tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus many incredible photographs and 12 maps.

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Insight Compact Guide Egypt.......2007-06-11

Very informative. Lost of great colorful pictures. I am well prepared for my trip to Egypt and will take this book with me.

Good second guide.......2000-02-09

I really liked the pictures and history presented in the Insight Guide to Egypt. Their maps, text, and photos provide a very rich overview of your trip and will make a good souvenir after you've been.

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The Nile: This book provides everything you'll ever need in a guidebook. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superb souvenir of your visit. Evocative photography: Insight guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life the Nile's history, monuments, wildlife, cities and, above all, its people. Incisive evaluations: From the cataracts of Nubia to Cairo and the Delta, from felucca trips to luxury cruises, it's all here. Detailed, cross-referenced maps: All sites are clearly highlighted and numbered in relation to the text. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels, restaurants and phone numbers you'll need.

Cairo Insight Guide (Insight City Guide)

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Cairo Insight Guide (Insight City Guide)

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Africa | Travel | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 9624211485

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Cairo Insight Guide (Insight Guides)

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Binding: Paperback

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EGYPT
INSIGHT GUIDE
Manufacturer: INSIGHT
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000SEGEXU

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Egypt (Insight compact guides)
Michel Rauch
Manufacturer: Apa Productions
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 039573424X

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Good-looking but hard to lug

Egypt (Insight Guide Egypt)
Prentice-Hall , Apa Productions , and Insight Guides
Manufacturer: Hungry Minds Inc,U.S.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 013465675X

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Good-looking but hard to lug.......1997-05-19

Insight's City Guides combine stunning photography with literate text and a smattering of basic travel information. The Insight Venice guide is worth adding to your bookshelf, but its practical advice is getting a bit long in the tooth and its heft makes it less than ideal as a take-along guide. - Durant Imboden, Venice for Visitors, http://govenice.miningco.co

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Egypt (Insight Guides)
Hans Johannes Hoefer
Manufacturer: APA PUBLICATIONS
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000J52OIC

Egypt Insight Compact Guide (Insight Compact Guides)

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Egypt Insight Compact Guide (Insight Compact Guides)

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9812582274

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Egypt Insight Compact Guide (Insight Compact Guides)

Manufacturer: APA Publications Pte Ltd,Singapore
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9624213100

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Each section of this alternative-therapy guidebook is written by a practitioner who specializes in one area of equine alternative medicine--acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, massage, and herbal medicine. The book features basic descriptions of the various techniques within each discipline, along with diagrams and pictures to better illustrate how these procedures are performed. Filled with tips and tricks on how to do some of the simpler therapies yourself, this book is a very valuable resource to use in conjunction with advice from a qualified veterinarian in treating a multitude of common ailments of and injuries to the horse. --Julia King

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It's all you need.......2000-11-09

This was a great book. I did not know much about alternitive therapies, so I took a class on it at college. Healing Your Horse: Alternitive Therapies, was used as our text book. The book covered therapies such as: massage, chiropractic, acupuncture, homeopathy, and herbal. Each section is easily explain by specialists in that therapy. This book is easy to understand on any level. It is great to read for your pleasure, or a do-it-yourself guide. What ever your interest is, this book is worth reading. It's all you need! So get started! Enjoy!!

It's a great way to get started.......2000-09-15

I was introduced to this book through a massage therapy class at my college. Not only does it provide a basic overview of techniques from massage to accupuncture, it also describes how it will be beneficial to the animal. All levels of readers and practitioners will be able to read and comprehend what the book is saying. It isn't one of those technical publications that will blow your mind. I could'nt put it down

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A perfect introduction for novices — and fun for all! — this mega-set provides everything a beginner needs:
• An illustrated album with room for over 1,000 stamps
• A guide booklet that explains how to build and care for a collection
• A catalog listing hundreds of historic stamps available for purchase
• A magnifying glass
• Adhesive hinges for mounting stamps
• Starter pack of 25 real U.S. postage stamps

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Beginner's Kit.......2007-01-19

My son wanted to look into stamp collecting. I don't know much about it. This is a good review/starting place to see what is involved in the hobby. It made a nice Christmas present, didn't cost much and showed him I had listened to his interests. Nice format and helpful included items.

A good beginning.......2007-01-10

This album is strictly for U.S. stamps and covers the early 1900's through 2005. There are some black and white illustrations for each year, as well as blank spaces for other stamps. The book would have been a little nicer with a spiral binding and illustrations in color. Pages that wouldn't lie flat were a definite frustration for our grandson. A few starter stamps were included, as well as hinges, but there were only about a dozen hinges, so the first thing we had to do was find a source for them. Still, it's a good functional album for providing a beginning without a large outlay of money.

Disappointed.......2006-06-19

We ordered this kit for a beginner at stamp collecting. We expected the album to be free-form, so he could save the stamps that he likes. Instead the album has pages for specific years, starting in 1901, and photos of specific stamps for many of the spaces. I'm not a stamp collector myself, and maybe this is a standard format, but it's not at all what we wanted. The Guide is okay, and the magnifying glass is inexpensive but okay. But we ordered the kit primarily for the album, and it's collecting dust on a shelf.

Not bad for a beginner........2006-02-27

This is a nice kit for an early beginner at stamp collecting. Please note that the album is only for U.S. Stamps. It's a good deal for the price.

Start Collecting Stamps / Includes Stamps (A Running Press Collector Book)

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Start Collecting Stamps / Includes Stamps (A Running Press Collector Book)
Samuel Grossman
Manufacturer: Running Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0894716700

Earn Extra Money In Your Spare Time Selling Stamp Collecting Supplies On-line

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Earn Extra Money In Your Spare Time Selling Stamp Collecting Supplies On-line
Jassen Bowman
Manufacturer: Web Launch, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio CD

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Modern technology, including the Internet, has leveled the playing field for small business owners, and now you can get into the action. While you won't get rich quick with an online business, you can generate a nice side income that will help pay bills or increase your standard of living, and do it from the comfort of your own home, on your own hours. We'll help you cut the learning curve that holds back so many people from launching their own business. You don't need an MBA to start a company, and we'll show you the simple steps required to set up your business entity, put together your marketing, find suppliers, and profit from the get go. If you like the idea of working on your own schedule from home to earn extra, place your order now for this guide to starting your business.

Everybody's stamp book: Origin and development of postage stamps, their rarity and value, famous stamps, how to start as a collector

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Everybody's stamp book: Origin and development of postage stamps, their rarity and value, famous stamps, how to start as a collector
Frederic J Haskin
Manufacturer: F.J. Haskin
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B000895RQ0

Everything Stamp Collecting Book: All You Need to Start, Grow, and Preserve Your Collection! (Everything Series)

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Everything Stamp Collecting Book: All You Need to Start, Grow, and Preserve Your Collection! (Everything Series)
John K. Hawks
Manufacturer: Adams Media Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1598693816

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How to Start Stamp Collecting

Manufacturer: Subway Stamp Shop
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0852590393

Start Collecting Stamps (Start Collecting)

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Start Collecting Stamps (Start Collecting)
Samuel Grossman , and Chuck Adams
Manufacturer: Running Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1561387614

The $500 Way to Start a U. S. Stamp Investment Program

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The $500 Way to Start a U. S. Stamp Investment Program
Stephen L. Suffet
Manufacturer: Pilot Books
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How to start a stamp business
Donald Shepard
Manufacturer: The Author
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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How to start a stamp collection
Douglas Patrick
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A free-spirited garden is the ultimate low-maintenance choice for people who delight in spontaneity and abundance. Garden writer Susan McClure is just such a person, and here ?she brings a delightful sense of abandon to her easy-to-follow instructions for creating lush gardens with a life of their own. Lavishly photographed, The Free-Spirited Garden offers practical advice on gardening with self-sowing annuals, biennials, and perennials for a variety of climates and landscapes. Turn a high-maintenance lawn into a meadow blanketed with bright perennials; create a shaded woodland retreat; install a tiny headstrong herb garden-The Free-Spirited Garden leads the way to a delightful array of quick and easy backyard transformations, whatever the space available. Now any outdoor area can blossom into a burgeoning, resplendent garden full of wonderful surprises.?

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Let the gardens grow.......1999-04-21

Sometimes you need to let go and allow the garden to become. I like McClure's ideas of getting away from row gardening and instead focusing on less fussy beds, for instance using self-sowing plants. I also recommend this author's other book, The Herb Gardener. It's a good manual for those wishing to explore herbs. -Linda Fry Kenzle, author of Gathering

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on July 1, 1992. The length of the article is 1284 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Principles of Samaritan Halachah. (book reviews)
Author: Abraham Tal
Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1992
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Volume: v112 Issue: n3 Page: p531(3)

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Oscar Wilde : A Certain Genius
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Oscar Wilde : A Certain Genius
Barbara Belford
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Hardcover
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Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius
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Middle of the Road Approach to Flamboyant Playright's Life

No Spirit, Not Even a Breath!

Not Wilde About It

Painstakingly researched, but....

Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius
Barbara Belford
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 081299261X
Release Date: 2000-10-03

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Why, readers may ask, yet another book about Oscar Wilde? "Because his life is a continual allegory," the author tells us in her introduction, "and his social, political, and artistic views, which went right to the heart of Victorian society, are no less threatening today." In contrast to earlier biographers like Hesketh Pearson and Richard Ellmann, Belford emphasizes the cultural context in which Wilde (1854-1900) operated as both shrewd self-publicist and provocateur. Researching previous biographies of Violet Hunt and Bram Stoker, Belford immersed herself in the florid atmosphere of London during the 1890s, the decade of Wilde's greatest fame and infamy, and she uses this knowledge to deepen our understanding of the writer's relationship with his times. In particular, the West End theater district comes to life as the scene of Wilde's greatest triumphs as a playwright (from Lady Windermere's Fan to The Importance of Being Earnest) as well as of his introduction to "a homosocial world that had existed since Elizabethan times." Victorian society could not tolerate Wilde's relatively open homosexuality, however, and two 1895 trials ended with his conviction on charges of "gross indecency." He served two years in prison and died three years after his release, exiled, poor, and alone. Yet Belford stresses not Wilde's tragedy but his triumph. To the end, he was a gaily subversive writer whose works "demonstrate the value of graciousness, charm, and wit" even as they assert "the right of art and language to shock, to undermine, and to unsettle." --Wendy Smith

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In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. Published for the centenary of Wilde's death, here is a fresh, full-scale examination of the author of The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, a figure not only full of himself but enjoying life to the fullest.

Based on extensive study of original sources and animated throughout by historical detail, anecdote, and insight, the narrative traces Wilde's progression from his childhood in an intellectual Irish household to his maturity as a London author to the years of his European exile. Here is Wilde the Oxford Aesthete becoming the talk of London, going off to tour America, lecturing on the craftsmanship of Cellini to the silver miners of Colorado, condemning the ugliness of cast-iron stoves to the ladies of Boston. Here is the domestic Wilde, building sandcastles with his sons, and the generous Wilde, underwriting the publication of poets, lending and spending with no thought of tomorrow. And here is the romantic Wilde, enthralled with Lord Alfred Douglas in an affair that thrived on laughter, smitten with Florence Balcombe, flirting with Violet Hunt, obsessed with Lillie Langtry, loving Constance, his wife.

Vividly evoked are the theatres, clubs, restaurants, and haunts that Wilde made famous. More than previous accounts, Belford's biography evaluates Wilde's homosexuality as not just a private matter but one connected to the politics and culture of the 1890s. Wilde's timeless observations, which make him the most quoted playwright after Shakespeare, are seamlessly woven into the life, revealing a man of remarkable intellect, energy, and warmth.

Too often portrayed as a tragic figure--persecuted, imprisoned, sent into exile, and shunned--Wilde emerges from this intuitive portrait as fully human and fallible, a man who, realizing that his creative years were behind him, committed himself to a life of sexual freedom, which he insisted was the privilege of every artist.

Even now, we have yet to catch up with the man who exhibited some of the more distinguishing characteristics of the twentieth century's preoccupation with fame and zeal for self-advertisement. Wilde's personality shaped an era, and his popularity as a wit and a dramatist has never ebbed.

From the Hardcover edition.

Customer Reviews:

A Must For Researchers.......2007-05-18

As Continental forces and Virginia militia units were engaged in winning independence, American quartermasters and provisioners struggled to provide these units with all the necessities of life, from meals and guns to meat, fodder for horses, the horses themselves, firewood, and every other type of material. Much of this was requisitioned from the civilian population and certificates were issued payable in either continental or state funds, depending on the units supplied, upon presentation to court authorities. Thousands of these certificates issued to Virginians were duly entered by the courts, and they provide a fascinating insight into the period of the Revolution. These "Publick" Claims booklets contain interesting and useful information about the contributions of ordinary people to the Revolutionary War. They provide some details of people's service in the militia or as guards for prisoners of war; they indicate where some bodies of troops were at particular times; and they identify providers of horses, wagons, cattle, grain, or other supplies. Much of the information in these booklets cannot be found anywhere else, which makes the surviving records particularly valuable. Also remarkable is the fact that records survived from virtually every county in the state at that time with the exception of the newly formed Kentucky counties. This makes the collection even more valuable in covering areas which heretofore in this time period have suffered from a lack of personal data. The "Virginia Publick Claims" are published by counties. In addition to a faithful transcription by Janice Luck Abercrombie and the late Richard Slatten, a complete index is provided for each county booklet. This series is an extremely important genealogical tool for searchers in Revolutionary-era materials.

Middle of the Road Approach to Flamboyant Playright's Life.......2003-04-26

Ms. Bedford made no pretention to focusing upon a particular aspect of Oscar Wilde's life. Rather, she intended to offer a truly unbiased volume of carefully researched biographical information regarding Wilde and his societal surroundings. Many other readers have criticized the work for its seeming lack of spirit and depth. Ms. Bedford did not wish to offer such things, however. It is the duty of the reader to take the work and make one's own opinions regarding Wilde's life. Such a practice is rarely performed in modern times since the reading public are so very used to being told what to like - an attitude Wilde fought so much against. The volume meets the standard set by the author in the introduction, as well as the standards of biographies of its kind. It is, on the whole, a very good work.

No Spirit, Not Even a Breath!.......2002-04-15

I reached for this volume for a refreshing change of pace from this dreary, political and social state of things. Alas, there was no such lift to be had in this volume. The story was all there, the good times and the bad but the tone was too dark. I'll wager that most people who reach for his biography are less intrigued by the history as they are by the precision bite of his words. Indeed, this seems more of a latter life work. We are given a front row seat to the repressive consequences for his flaunting conservative standards about sexuality. The details were complete and appropriately credited. But the theatrics were missing. That novel charge so often haughty and sharp lost that rippling propulsion that has succeeded over time. As a unashamed Victorian homosexual, Wilde was well ahead of his time. The question is, was he ahead of our time as well? there can be no doubt that Wilde's tongue can wag and delight contemporary readers and theater goers. However that voice and pen, used with sizzling, frenetic arrogance is sadly, not at home in this bio.

Not Wilde About It.......2002-03-11

Barbara Belford's biography is well-illustrated and quotes its subject profusely, yet I came away with the feeling it tried to hard to prove a theory of Wilde rather than to explore him. The author discusses her reservations about Ellmann's biography of Wilde, and complains in her foreword that recent biographies have "take[n] specialist views: ... the Irish Wilde, the gay Wilde..." Yet she does exactly that, and seems to want to make up for Ellman's "reticence" in discussing Wilde's sexuality by placing it at instead the center of this work. As if Ellmann's Wilde was perhaps not gay enough for some, Belford's is overwhelmingly so; this has the (unintended?) effect of minimizing the importance of Wilde's wife Constance and his children. Wilde's homosexual passions are cast as the sole source of his inspiration, and it is suggested that he wanted to assert his right to live as he chose. In fact, the opposite appears true. By prosecuting Queensberry, Wilde was in essence asserting his right to stay legally and publicly in the closet. Once he had been forced in court to accept that Queensberry was "entitled to call him a posing sodomite", Wilde hardly seems to have accepted the title with enthusiasm or pride, as he himself makes clear in the opening of De Profundis.

Overall I'd say it was a pleasant enough read for those already familiar with its subject, but I would hesitate to recommend it to Wilde novices: the man was more complex than he is ultimately portrayed here, and one almost gets the impression the writer dislikes her subject. It leaves the taste of an exposé.

Painstakingly researched, but...........2002-01-24

Although it is apparant that Barbara Belford researched Oscar Wilde's life thoroughly, she is never able to capture her subject in such a way that the reader feels s/he knows Wilde well. Often her sentences are run-on and so confusing that frequently I had to re-read a line in order to grasp its meaning.

I have recently read Jonathan Fryer's biography of Robbie Ross who was Wilde's great friend and literary executor. If Ross had not been associated so closely with Wilde, his life would not merit a biography. Even so, I feel that I know Ross better from Fryer's book than I understand Wilde from Belford's. The same holds true concerning Douglas Murray's book, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas. Bosie's relationship with Wilde brought about Wilde's conviction for gross indecency, his imprisonment, his exile and contributed to his early death in 1900. Aside from those facts, Bosie Douglas's life would not call for a biography. Yet again I understand Bosie from Murray's book than I understand Wilde from Belford's. In fact, both Fryer and Murray offer more insight into Wilde in their biographies of his close associates than Belford offers in her biography of Wilde.

Oscar Wilde: a Certain Genius
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Oscar Wilde: a Certain Genius
Barbara Belford
Manufacturer: Bloomsbury
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NV7N7O

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