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At the end of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, on the eve of the Civil War, Huck and Tom Sawyer decide to escape 'sivilization' and 'light out for the Territory.' In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also 'wrote by Huck,' the boys do just that, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war.
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Produkt Huck Out West (Coover Robert)(Paperback) má přiřazen EAN kód 9780393355499.
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