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Themes: Literary Criticism • Literary Collections • American

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Fans of The Portable Western Reader by Various will find 24 titles here, all united by Westerns, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections. Authors represented include Grey Zane, Andre Brink, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Peck, and others.