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1960•806 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

The Sot-Weed Factor

3.8/ 5
5 ratings

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Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status of a modern classic. Set in the late 1600s, it recounts the wildly chaotic odyssey of hapless, ungainly Ebenezer Cooke, sent to the New World to look after his father's tobacco business and to record the struggles of the Maryland colony in an epic poem

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Book Details

First Published

1960

Pages

806 pages

Rating

3.8 / 5

Ratings

5

Editions

30

Publisher

Flamingo

Language

ENG, GER

Status

Published

The People Behind The Book

Authors

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