Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Author	: Katherine Byrne
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 235
Release	: 2011
ISBN-10	: 9780521766678
ISBN-13	: 0521766672
Rating	: 4/5 (78 Downloads)

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