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In America

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The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.

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Penguin Classics
0141190108 / 9780141190105
Paperback / softback
813.54
02/07/2009
United Kingdom
English
Historic novels
400 p.
20 cm
Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.