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In America [EPUB ebook]

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The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland’s most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska’s subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780141976488 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 5815006 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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