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A Separate Peace is a coming-of-age novel by John Knowles, published in 1958. Based on his earlier short story "Phineas", published in the May 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan, it was Knowles's first published novel and became his best-known work.
A Separate Peace. John Knowles. 3.59. 221,908 ratings9,783 reviews. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.
A Separate Peace is a timeless novel by John Knowles, initially published in 1959. The coming-of-age story unfolds within the confines of Devon School, a fictional all-boys preparatory school nestled in the landscapes of New Hampshire during the turbulent era of World War II.
A short summary of John Knowles's A Separate Peace. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of A Separate Peace.
Sep 27, 1972 · A Separate Peace: Directed by Larry Peerce. With John Heyl, Parker Stevenson, William Roerick, Peter Brush. Two roomates at a prep school in New England during World War II come to grips with the war, jealousy and betrayal. Based on a novel by John Knowles.
Sep 30, 2003 · Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.
A Separate Peace is set against the backdrop of World War II. In the United States in 1942, 16 and 17-year-olds were all too aware of the fact that they would most likely be drafted into the military when they turned 18.
A Separate Peace, novel by John Knowles, published in 1959. It recalls with psychological insight the maturing of a 16-year-old student at a New England preparatory school during World War II.
John Knowles’s novel A Separate Peace is the tragic coming-of-age story of Gene Forrester, whose first-person narrative recounts his prep school memories from fifteen years ago.
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description...
