The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller and a ‘Book of the Year 2019’
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2019)
Selected as Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Washington Post, Herald and Good...
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![The Dwarf [= sv. Dvärgen, 1944]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/the-dwarf-sv-dv_256819.jpg)
The Dwarf is the acrid journal of a court freak, a twenty-six-inch-tall misanthrope whose name, Piccoline, is mentioned only once, in passing, by another character. Thereafter called the Dwarf, he offers a distorted perspective on the fortunes of...
William's life is beset with frustration: his band turns his melodic songs into grotesque parodies of Status Quo, and cool Madelaine dangles out of reach. Things could hardly get worse, it seems — until he becomes the only witness to a bizarre...
Автор: Кейбелл Джеймс Брэнч
Серия: Biography of the Life of Manuel #19
Язык: английский
Год: 1904
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