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Author: Josep Pla
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1590176715

The Gray Notebook (New York Review Books Classics)

Josep Pla, a budding young writer, was studying law in Barcelona in 1918 when the university was shut down because of the Spanish flu epidemic. Get The Gray Notebook literature books for free.
Pla returned to his parents' house in the coastal town of Palafrugell, and with nothing to do he decided to keep a journal in which he would describe-as a way of honing his skills as a writer-everything about the daily life of his family and friends that had any interest for him. The gray notebook in which he kept this journal would survive the Franco regime, when Pla's native Catalan tongue was suppressed, to emerge, some fifty years later as The Gray Notebook, the most celebrated work of twentieth-century Catalan literature, admired as much for its pitch-perfect prose as for its shrewd Check The Gray Notebook our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

The Gray Notebook Download

The gray notebook in which he kept this journal would survive the Franco regime, when Pla's native Catalan tongue was suppressed, to emerge, some fifty years later as The Gray Notebook, the most celebrated work of twentieth-century Catalan literature, admired as much for its pitch-perfect prose as for its shrewd

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