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  • Mona Lisa

    Translated by Ignat Avsey ...
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  • Audiobook

    Appointment in Samarra

    by John O'Hara ...
    Narrated by Christian Camargo ...
    Series series Penguin Audio Classics

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    The writer whom Fran Lebowitz compared to the author of The Great Gatsby, calling him “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald,” makes his Penguin Classics debut with this beautiful deluxe edition of his best-loved book.One of the great novels of small-town American life, Appointment in Samarra is John O’Hara’s crowning achievement. In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD