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Book Title: Baudelaire the Damned : a Biography
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.8in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: F. w. J. Hemmings
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: European / French, Poetry, Literary
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Number of Pages: 390 Pages
