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The war of the end of the world / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen R. Lane.
LIBRA PQ8498.32.A65 G813 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.
- Standardized Title:
- Guerra del fin del mundo. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Brazil.
- Brazil--History--Canudos Campaign, 1893-1897--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 568 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [1984]
- Summary:
- An apocalyptic prophet in the Brazilian backlands creates the state of Canudos. In it there is no money, property, marriage, income tax, decimal system, or census.
- Notes:
- Translation of: La guerra del fin del mundo.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is signed by the author with his initials on the front free endpaper.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has dust jacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 is signed edition, no.207 of 250.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has slipcase retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374286515
- 9780374286514
- 0374252858
- 9780374252854
- OCLC:
- 10779426
- Online:
- Publisher description
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