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Harmonsworth, Middlesex : Penguin
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Twenty years after his first collection of tales about that Don Quixote of adult education, Leo Rosten brought Hyman Kaplan back for a second term on the bottom rung in the beginner's grade at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults.
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LibraryThing member tripleblessings
Pseudonym of Leo Rosten.
From Toronto, hardcover with paper jacket. More funny adventures of Mr. Kaplan and the other immigrants who study English in Mr. Parkhill's night class. Sometimes politically incorrect in its stereotypes of Eastern European immigrants. The humour as the students struggle
From Toronto, hardcover with paper jacket. More funny adventures of Mr. Kaplan and the other immigrants who study English in Mr. Parkhill's night class. Sometimes politically incorrect in its stereotypes of Eastern European immigrants. The humour as the students struggle
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with the inconsistencies of English spelling and grammar is spot-on. Show Less
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National Book Award (Finalist — Fiction — 1960)
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177 p.; 20 cm
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Donated by the Stone Family, June 2021