Axel's castle: A study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930
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Axel's castle: A study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930 by Edmund Wilson is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 1984 • Norton • 319 pages.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780393301946
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