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The White Company
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The White Company

Язык: английский
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This spirited account of the exploits of a crew of Saxon archers during the Hundred Years War features cameo appearances by historical figures such as Edward III and the Black Prince. Flavorful and realistic in its depictions of medieval life, the...
The Confidence-Man
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The Confidence-Man

Автор: Melville Herman
Язык: английский
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Long considered the author's strangest novel, this work is a comic allegory aimed at the optimism and materialism of mid-18th-century America. A mysterious shape-changing confidence-man approaches passengers on a Mississippi steamboat and,...
The Day of the Locust
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The Day of the Locust

Автор: West Nathanael
Язык: английский
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Novel by Nathanael West about the savagery lurking beneath the Hollywood dream. Published in 1939, it is one of the most striking examples of the " Hollywood novel" in American fiction. Tod Hackett, a set designer, becomes involved in the lives...
The Settlers
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The Settlers

Автор: Moberg Vilhelm
Серия: The Emigrants #3
Язык: английский
Год: 1995
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Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these...