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John Brown

John Brown

John Brown

Robert Penn Warren

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Año de edición:
1993
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9781879941199
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Warren’s first book, a biography that foreshadows the themes developed in novels like All the King’s Men, portrays the flawed idealist whose violent seizure of the Harper’s Ferry arsenal led to the greater violence of the Civil War. Southern Classics Series.

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