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Article: Rereading Jack London.
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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Leonard Cassuto and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. xvii + 287 pp. $45.00.
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