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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun
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My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun

Emily Dickinson
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Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America’s greatest writers.

‘It’s coming - the postponeless Creature’ Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America’s greatest writers.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics’ huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 May 2016
Pages
64
ISBN
9780241251409

Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America’s greatest writers.

‘It’s coming - the postponeless Creature’ Electrifying poems of isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and one of America’s greatest writers.
One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics’ huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 May 2016
Pages
64
ISBN
9780241251409

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