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People of the puszta is a part an auto-biography, part sociography (of a society that has now mostly disappeared), part a description a landscape, meshed with bits of the cultural heritage of the people who inhabit that landscape.
People of the Puszta
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Szerző-Author: Illyés Gyula
People of the puszta is a part an auto-biography, part sociography (of a society that has now mostly disappeared), part a description a landscape, meshed with bits of the cultural heritage of the people who inhabit that landscape.
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Típus-Type: antikvár
Állapot-Condition: újszerű
Kiadó-Publisher: Corvina, 1979
Nyelv-Language: english
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Kötés-Binding: kemény
Azonosító-Item number: 11-215
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