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1166:Up the Line
865:p. 36.
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674:H. G. Wells
670:Jules Verne
666:John Updike
626:Thomas Mann
602:Franz Kafka
598:James Joyce
526:Saul Bellow
512:Novelists:
442:BĂ©la BartĂłk
436:Composers:
406:W. B. Yeats
354:T. S. Eliot
305:the author.
57:Jerry Thorp
1660:Categories
1626:Universe 3
1619:Universe 2
1612:Universe 1
1535:Legends II
1187:Son of Man
1145:Nightwings
890:4 February
843:2009-07-11
819:2009-07-11
796:References
790:Karl Zener
682:Émile Zola
662:Mark Twain
610:Harper Lee
570:Jean Genet
522:John Barth
496:Ben Jonson
450:Alban Berg
410:Painters:
386:Ezra Pound
350:John Donne
236:telepathic
1354:Gilgamesh
1271:Starborne
1243:Nightfall
766:Carl Jung
720:Karl Marx
692:Aristotle
508:Sophocles
492:Euripides
480:Aeschylus
287:, wrote:
281:Ted Gioia
255:Reception
249:acid trip
208:in 1973.
117:Paperback
113:Hardcover
80:Publisher
1318:Majipoor
1289:Nidonian
918:30 April
424:El Greco
165:813/.5/4
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1528:Legends
328:Poets:
311:mundane
230:Summary
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299:sci-fi
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1420:Alpha
712:Laozi
366:Homer
188:is a
124:Pages
70:Genre
943:ISBN
920:2015
892:2020
224:1972
204:and
202:Hugo
146:OCLC
133:ISBN
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