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This nuanced portrait of abolitionist politics in the decades leading up to the Civil War contain...

This nuanced portrait of abolitionist politics in the decades leading up to the Civil War contain...

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, ...

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard (b. 1968) made a literary mark on his home country in 1998, ...

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