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A Nonpareil book volume 56
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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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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.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1948
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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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Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c1995
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"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.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
1948
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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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