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Book Title: Ghalib : Selected Poems and Letters
Item Length: 8.9in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 5.9in
Author: Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Original Language: Urdu
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Asian / General, Asian / Indic, Islam / General, Linguistics / General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Genre: Religion, Poetry, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 12.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages