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The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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- CEFR level
- C1
- Length
- 15 chapters
- Format
- The complete book
About this book
About this book
In sunlit Monterey, rival caballeros clash in a thrilling horse race that ignites old regional tensions between North and South California, while a handsome stranger’s dark horses threaten to upend the established order in a world on the brink of change.
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