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 Open Letters: Selected WritingsBest Price: $10.00 Vaclav Havel has been called "the greatest moral thinker of our time" and "a sort... |  Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Volume 6, Bijelo Polje, Three Texts from Avdo Mededovi´c The Wedding of Vlahinji´c Alija Osambeg Delibegovi´c Pavicevi´c Luka ... Parry Collection, Texts and Translations)Best Price: $26.50 This book, as many other from Milman Parry Collection from Harvard University, is the best... |  The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schultz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the HourglassBest Price: $125.00 His name is MISSPELLED at the head of EVERY OTHER PAGE. The reproductions of his artwork are... |  A Wake for the Living: Poems (Bilingual Edition)Best Price: $8.04 I never expected to find a kindred spirit in Eastern Europe. Radmila Lazic is a contemporary... |  The Day Tito Died: Contemporary Slovenian StoriesDrago Jancar is the most well-known living Slovenian author. His books are translated in more... |
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