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God Head.

"Lavished with praise at the time of its 1925 publication, Leonard Cline's phantasmagoric God Head is being republished so a new generation of readers can marvel at its dark magic. Cline's mesmerizing debut follows the journey of Paulus Kempf, a fugitive labor agitator who takes refug...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cline, Leonard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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