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AlarcónOs OOThe NunOO has been praised as a stark depiction of decadence and decline, Captain Poison as a humorous reversal of The Taming of the Shrew, OOMoors and ChristiansOO as an astute commentary on greed, and OOThe Tall WomanOO as an absorbing tale of the fantastic and supernatural. Together the four works show that AlarcónOs imagination in short prose fiction thrived at the middle of his writing career and at the end of it.

The Nun and Other Stories

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    A Hardback by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Robert M. Fedorchek

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      Publisher: Bucknell University Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/1999
      ISBN13: 9781611481099, 978-1611481099
      ISBN10: 1611481090

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      AlarcónOs OOThe NunOO has been praised as a stark depiction of decadence and decline, Captain Poison as a humorous reversal of The Taming of the Shrew, OOMoors and ChristiansOO as an astute commentary on greed, and OOThe Tall WomanOO as an absorbing tale of the fantastic and supernatural. Together the four works show that AlarcónOs imagination in short prose fiction thrived at the middle of his writing career and at the end of it.

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