Mark Twain's progression from A Connecticut Yankee to The Mysterious Stranger
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
سال: 1990
ISSN: 2171-861X,0214-4808
DOI: 10.14198/raei.1990.3.06