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Modern Owls Fly by Night: Recent Literature on Fin de Siècle Vienna

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Steven Beller
Affiliation:
Peterhouse, Cambridge

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Historiographical Reviews
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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