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- 1 2 Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes ISBN 0-19-283986-1
- ↑ Foster, Thomas C. (2003), How to Read Literature Like a Professor, New York: Harper-Collins Publishers Inc., ISBN 978-0-06-000942-7.
