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Summaries from A to Z

Titles are filed under their first word after "The", "A" or "An".

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  • She H. Rider Haggard

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  • Cuentos franceses Prosper Mérimée; Guy de Maupassant; Alphonse Daudet; Erckmann-Chatrian; François Coppée; Théophile Gautier; Honoré de Balzac; Alfred de Musset; Douglas Labaree Buffum (editor)

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