THE GREAT GATSBY
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This modernist novel of manners by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published by Scribner Classics, a division of the MacMillan Reference Library (but is licensed to other publishers and is in the public domain, but only in countries outside...
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2666 by Roberto Bolaño
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