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A Nonpareil book volume 56
Language
English
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In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered.Fifty...
2) The Runaway
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Language
English
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Description
A novel by the author of To Dance with the White Dog. Set in the South in the late 1940s, and using as its springboard the relationship of two boys--one black, the other white--The Runaway examines the joys, sorrows, conflicts, and racial disharmony of their historically biased environment.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1948
Language
English
Description
v. 1. Mowgli's brothers. Kaa's hunting. How fear came. "Tiger! Tiger!" The king's ankus. Letting in the jungle. Red Dog. The spring running.--v. 2. "Rikki-tikki-tavi." The white seal. The miracle of Purun Bhagat. The undertakers. Quiquern. Toomai of the elephants. Her Majesty's servants.
Author
Series
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
"Reader's Digest, the world's best reading" (4 p.) laid in. Good-bye, Mr. Chips -- Young Waveney -- Mr. Chips takes a risk -- Mr. Chips meets a sinner -- Mr. Chips meets a star -- Merry Christmas, Mr. Chips / Afterword, what Mr. Chips taught me. Short Stories collection--look for Short Stories spine label.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1948
Language
English
Description
v. 1. Mowgli's brothers. Kaa's hunting. How fear came. "Tiger! Tiger!" The king's ankus. Letting in the jungle. Red Dog. The spring running.--v. 2. "Rikki-tikki-tavi." The white seal. The miracle of Purun Bhagat. The undertakers. Quiquern. Toomai of the elephants. Her Majesty's servants.
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