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The World Broke In Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, And The Year That Changed Literature

by Bill Goldstein

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The World Broke In Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, And The Year That Changed Literature by Bill Goldstein appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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