- Fiction, Historical fiction, Pompeii (Extinct city), Eruption, 79
Un classique de la littérature qui redonne vie à la civilisation pompéienne disparue dans l'éruption du Vésuve. Pompéi, 24 août 79 après Jésus-Christ. Cette petite ville romaine du sud de l'Italie vit, sans le savoir, ses dernières heures.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- First published
- 1923
- Pages
- 412
- Publisher
- International Book Company, B. Tauchnitz, The Spencer Press
- Editions
- 275
- Language
- German, French, yid, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780341841203
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