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Text and Context 1976 | 1 |
On Difficulty 1978 | 18 |
Language and Psychoanalysis 1976 | 48 |
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| Title | On Difficulty, and Other Essays A Galaxy book Volume 613 of Oxford GB Oxford paperbacks |
| Author | George Steiner |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1978 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 11, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0192122088, 9780192122087 |
| Length | 209 pages |
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