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HL 1010L
Language
English
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
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Century trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
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Century trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II. It picks up right where the first book left off, and continues up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...
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English
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Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke finished the manuscript as the atomic bomb was being dropped...
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
1016 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Tras el éxito de Los pilares de la Tierra y Un mundo sin fin, Ken Follett presenta esta gran novela épica que narra la historia de cinco familias durante los años turbulentos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución Rusa y la lucha de hombres y mujeres por sus derechos." -- Page [4] cover.
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"Tras el ©♭xito de Los pilares de la Tierra y Un mundo sin fin, Ken Follett presenta esta gran novela ©♭pica que narra la historia de cinco familias durante los a©łos turbulentos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revoluci©đn Rusa y la lucha de hombres y mujeres por sus derechos." -- Page [4] cover.