Bestsellers: Popular fiction since 1900

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-425

  Bloom, Clive ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230583870     Document Type: Book

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