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Book Title: Battle of the Books : History and Literature in the Augustan Age
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Joseph M. Levine
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Historiography, Europe / Great Britain / General, Ancient & Classical, Books & Reading, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 32.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 448 Pages
