The Shining World
1924
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There are people comfortably settled into their lives. There are people confident in what they know. There are people who are safe within their well-defined world. Just when they think they have the universe figured out, along comes Drood and changes everything overnight. Join the great Russian dreamer Alexander Grin, as he explores the question - what would happen if a human being could fly.
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Author
Alexander Grin
Author · 7 books
Alexander Grin or Green is the pen name of Aleksandr Stepanovich Grinevskiĭ (Russian: Александр Степанович Грин (настоящее имя — Алексaндр Степaнович Гринeвский)), August 23, 1880 – July 8, 1932), a Russian writer, notable for his romantic novels and short stories, mostly set in an unnamed fantasy land with a European or Latin American flavor. He was a sailor, gold miner and construction worker, but generally lived a life of a vagabond.
