
Selected Essays
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- Rutgers University Press
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN-13
- 9780813505534
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Literary criticismJoseph ConradEssays
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1968)
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