John Knowles

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A Separate Peace

An American coming-of-age tale during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

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.

Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

A Novel

In 1945, veteran and former POW Pete Hellam returns to his alma mater, Devon School, to teach and finds his students are concerned about what will happen when peace is declared

Peace Breaks Out

Phineas

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Separate Peace

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Provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics covering John Knowles' A Separate Peace.

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. Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

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While idling on the Riviera, where he tries to forget his estranged wife, a young man learns something of the value of commitment from hsi Algerian manservant.

Morning in Antibes

Alan C Coman

Returning to his private high school after 15 years, Gene Forrester finds that far from being the peaceful paradise it had seemed, school life had actually been the central battleground for young men about to enter the adult stream of life.

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Coles Notes

W. John Campbell

A literary study guide that includes summaries and commentaries.

A Separate Place

At the height of her fame, Axie Reed, after suffering a severe accident, lays in the hospital on the edge of death drifting fitfully yet insightfully over her career and private life

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