The Day the Whistle Blew: The Life & Death of the Stansbury Coal Camp, Paperback - Marilyn Nesbit Wood

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First English translation of a Greek novella first published in 1920 by the Corfiot author Konstantinos Theotokis. A tragi-comedy of Corfiot villag...

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