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British literary traveling between the wars, paul fussell, oxford university press, 1980, 0199878536, 9780199878536, 256 pages. Abroad british literary traveling between the wars, paul fussell, 1982, authors, english, 246 pages. British literary traveling between the wars by fussell, paul, 1924publication date 1980. British literary traveling between the wars by paul fussell. British literary travelling between the wars by paul fussell oxford, 246 pp. A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in england and america in the 1920s and 30s. The great war and modern memory, 2000, 384 pages, paul. Abroad by paul fussell, 9780195030686, available at book depository with free. Eighteenthcentury english literature, geoffrey tillotson, paul fussell, marshall waingrow, 1969, literary criticism, 1554 pages.
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