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My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead by Jeffrey Eugenides

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro

by Jeffrey Eugenides
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  • Jan 8, 2008, 608 pages
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  • Jan 2009, 600 pages
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