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    A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
    A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
    A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
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    A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

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    A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535842105
    A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

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      A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" - Gale

      Short Stories for Students, Volume 6

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      Editorial: Tim Akers, Editor. Donald Akers, Tim Akers, Thomas Bertonneau, Cynthia Bily, Paul Bodine, Carol Dell’Amico, Catherine V. Donaldson, Tom Faulkner, Benjamin Goluboff, Diane Andrews Henningfeld, Rena Korb, Oliver Lovesey, Sarah Madsen Hardy, Jacqueline Perret, Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, Eric Rapp, Sketchwriters. Jeffrey W. Hunter, Maria Job, Daniel Jones, Deborah A. Schmitt, Polly Vedder, Timothy J. White, Kathleen Wilson, Contributing Editors. James P. Draper, Managing Editor.

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      ISBN 0-7876-3606-1

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      A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

      Gabriel Garcia Marquez

      1968

      Introduction

      Written in 1968, Un seiior muy viejo con alas enormes (A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings) is typical of a style known as magic realism, which is

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