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Book Title: If Not, Winter : Fragments of Sappho
Number of Pages: 416 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2003
Topic: Women Authors, European / General, Ancient & Classical
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry
Item Weight: 10 oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Sappho
Book Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
