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A Separate Peace by John Knowles - undifferentiated, John Knowles is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Separate Peace about?
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys'boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
Who reads A Separate Peace?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- John Knowles - undifferentiated, John Knowles
- Publisher
- Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743253970
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult
- Rating
- 3.56 / 5 (157,740 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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