The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird is a controversial 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosinski which describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about small towns scattered around Eastern Europe. The story was originally introduced by Kosiński to Houghton Mifflin as autobiographical. It was only upon its publication that he quietly refrained from making such claims any further. Assumed by reviewers to be a memoir of a Jewish survivor and witness to the Holocaust telling the supposed true story of his futile search for his deported family, the book received enthusiastic reviews. However, within two decades it was discovered that the story was not only fictional but also plagiarized from popular books written in the Polish language, unknown to English readers. In a series of a
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The Painted Bird
The Painted Bird is a controversial 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosinski which describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about small towns scattered around Eastern Europe. The story was originally introduced by Kosiński to Houghton Mifflin as autobiographical. It was only upon its publication that he quietly refrained from making such claims any further. Assumed by reviewers to be a memoir of a Jewish survivor and witness to the Holocaust telling the supposed true story of his futile search for his deported family, the book received enthusiastic reviews. However, within two decades it was discovered that the story was not only fictional but also plagiarized from popular books written in the Polish language, unknown to English readers. In a series of a
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De geverfde vogel (oorspronkel ...... oten hem, desnoods met geweld.
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L'Oiseau bariolé (titre origin ...... luctable qui habite l'homme ».
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Malowany Ptak (ang. The Painte ...... ej podczas II wojny światowej.
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The Painted Bird is a controve ...... any of the boy's experiences.
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PS3561.O8 P3 1995
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De geverfde vogel (oorspronkel ...... Ptak bij uitgeverij Czytelnik.
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L'Oiseau bariolé (titre origin ...... nt la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
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Malowany Ptak (ang. The Painte ...... ej podczas II wojny światowej.
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The Painted Bird is a controve ...... lish readers. In a series of a
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De geverfde vogel
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L'Oiseau bariolé
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Malowany ptak
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The Painted Bird
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The Painted Bird
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