A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
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A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
I’ve always been grateful (and somewhat amazed) that I read The Magic Mountain in my high school English class. That novel’s basic plot—a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society in confinement—became the story line for just about everything I’ve ever written.
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