OthEr BôôkS by WILLIam J. PaLmEr
Novels The Detective and Mr. Dickens The Highwayman and Mr. Dickens The Hoydens and Mr. Dickens The Dons and Mr. Dickens
FilM ŚuDies The Films of the Seventies: A Social History The Films of the Eighties: A Social History The Films of the Nineties: The Decade of Spin
ieRàRY CRiicisM The Fiction of John Fowles Dickens and New Historicism
HE WabaSh TrILôgy
e Wabash Baseball Blues e Redneck Mafia Civic eater
WILLIam J. PaLmEr
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