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In America
  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190105
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $42.99

In America

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17 Aug 2009
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New to Penguin Modern Classics for this story of idealism and the America stage

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.
  • Published: 17 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141190105
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $42.99
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About the author

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. She was also the author of four novels, including The Volcano Lover and In America, as well as a collection of stories and several plays. She was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, and received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
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