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Gertrude Stein, 1935
Poetry magazine
Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare and Company
Rubén Darío
Blast (1915)
Virginia Woolf, 1928
Oeuvres complètes de Jules Laforgue
Colette, c. 1910
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby raises a champagne glass, with "The Great Gatsby" book cover superimposed and an arrow pointing to it.
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Explore the works and influence of Virginia Woolf
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