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This is a historical novel in which the author reveals so-called contemporary history as an essential determinant of our living reality in all its dimensions.
"The Conquerors" by Andre Malraux is a novel about revolutionaries, idealists, and adventurers in China in the 1920s, where the relationship between ideals, power, and human destiny is explored through political struggle, conflicts, and personal motives.
The novel deals with social and moral problems of man in contemporary society. Through the fates of the main characters, the author depicts human arrogance, ambition and the consequences of wrong decisions.
The novel's author's motto is "I've always found it strange that writers have to invent things, all you have to do is listen to people's stories, destinies, secrets. Do you know, my child, that everyone in our family has a life for a novel?"
Jack Foley was escaping from the Glades County Jail in Florida when he encountered Karen Sisko armed with a shotgun.
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall