West, Nathanael 1903-1940
Overview
| Works: | 377 works in 1,358 publications in 22 languages and 40,441 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc History Drama Film adaptations Periodicals Experimental fiction Vocal scores Operas Satire |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Bibliographic antecedent, Actor, Scenarist, Author of screenplay |
| Classifications: | PS3545.E8334, 813.52 |
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Most widely held works about
Nathanael West
- American superrealism : Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s by Jonathan Veitch( )
- Politics, desire, and the Hollywood novel by Chip Rhodes( )
- Seven modern American novelists; an introduction by William Van O'Connor( Book )
- Nathanael West; the art of his life by Jay Martin( Book )
- Nathanael West, a collection of critical essays by Jay Martin( Book )
- Nathanael West by Stanley Edgar Hyman( Book )
- Nathanael West; [an interpretative study by James F Light( Book )
- The fiction of Nathanael West : no redeemer, no promised land by Randall Reid( Book )
- Nathanael West, the ironic prophet by Victor Comerchero( Book )
- Seven contemporary authors, essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers by Thomas B Whitbread( Book )
- The thirties: fiction, poetry, drama by Warren G French( Book )
- Nathanael West by Kingsley Widmer( Book )
- Nathanael West's novels by Irving Malin( Book )
- Radical sophistication; studies in contemporary Jewish-American novelists by Max F Schulz( Book )
- Some time in the sun by Tom Dardis( Book )
- Ten versions of America by Gerald B Nelson( Book )
- Nathanael West: the cheaters and the cheated; a collection of critical essays by Nathanael West( Book )
- Nathanael West( Book )
- The Great Depression and the culture of abundance : Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and mass culture in the 1930s by Rita Barnard( Book )
- Nathanael West by Robert Emmet Long( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Nathanael West
Complete works of Nathanael West by
Nathanael West(
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85 editions published between 1957 and 1988 in English and French and held by 2,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"'The Dream Life of Balso Snell' (1931), originally published in Paris, is in words of Robert Coates 'a fantasy, about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan Horse.' 'Miss Lonelyhearts' (1933) is considered his [the author's] masterpiece. 'It is one of the books, ' writes Malcolm Cowley, 'that had very few readers for the first edition, but simply refuse to be forgotten.' 'A Cool Million' (1936), with the subtitle, 'The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, ' is a satiric success story in the midst of the depression, written in mock Horatio Alger Style. 'The Day of the Locust' (1939), which is considered the best novel ever written about Hollywood, is a savage indictment.'"
85 editions published between 1957 and 1988 in English and French and held by 2,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"'The Dream Life of Balso Snell' (1931), originally published in Paris, is in words of Robert Coates 'a fantasy, about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan Horse.' 'Miss Lonelyhearts' (1933) is considered his [the author's] masterpiece. 'It is one of the books, ' writes Malcolm Cowley, 'that had very few readers for the first edition, but simply refuse to be forgotten.' 'A Cool Million' (1936), with the subtitle, 'The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin, ' is a satiric success story in the midst of the depression, written in mock Horatio Alger Style. 'The Day of the Locust' (1939), which is considered the best novel ever written about Hollywood, is a savage indictment.'"
The day of the locust by
Nathanael West(
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199 editions published between 1939 and 2018 in 18 languages and held by 2,268 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
West fictionalizes the working class of Tinseltown, in this novel that studies several men working at the peripheral edge of the movie industry and their mutual obsession with a daydreaming girl
199 editions published between 1939 and 2018 in 18 languages and held by 2,268 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
West fictionalizes the working class of Tinseltown, in this novel that studies several men working at the peripheral edge of the movie industry and their mutual obsession with a daydreaming girl
Miss Lonelyhearts ; &, the day of the locust by
Nathanael West(
Book
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74 editions published between 1933 and 2009 in English and held by 2,152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the first story, Miss Lonelyhearts is a newspaper reporter assigned to write the advice column, and becomes caught up in the suffering. In the second story, Ted Hackett goes to Hollywood in search of a career, but finds the way hard
74 editions published between 1933 and 2009 in English and held by 2,152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the first story, Miss Lonelyhearts is a newspaper reporter assigned to write the advice column, and becomes caught up in the suffering. In the second story, Ted Hackett goes to Hollywood in search of a career, but finds the way hard
Novels and other writings by
Nathanael West(
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20 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in English and held by 1,959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of six works by Nathanael West
20 editions published between 1997 and 2009 in English and held by 1,959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of six works by Nathanael West
Miss Lonelyhearts, a novel by
Nathanael West(
Book
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185 editions published between 1933 and 2017 in 20 languages and held by 1,101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts, ' as the conductor of the column is inevitably dubbed, begins with contempt of the correspondents and confidence in his own cleverness. As time goes on, the genuineness of the agony in the letters that come in gets under the skin of the columnist. He is distressed to find himself presiding over a monstrous swindle. For he is an idealist in collision with humanity, as his diabolical managing editor expresses it
185 editions published between 1933 and 2017 in 20 languages and held by 1,101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A scornful feature editor of a newspaper picks an ambitious young reporter to conduct the advice of the lovelorn column. Ambitious, opportunistic, 'Miss Lonelyhearts, ' as the conductor of the column is inevitably dubbed, begins with contempt of the correspondents and confidence in his own cleverness. As time goes on, the genuineness of the agony in the letters that come in gets under the skin of the columnist. He is distressed to find himself presiding over a monstrous swindle. For he is an idealist in collision with humanity, as his diabolical managing editor expresses it
A cool million ; The dream life of Balso Snell : two novels by
Nathanael West(
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59 editions published between 1931 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 658 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."--Publisher's website
59 editions published between 1931 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 658 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."--Publisher's website
The day of the locust by
John Schlesinger(
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12 editions published between 1974 and 2013 in English and German and held by 418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer
12 editions published between 1974 and 2013 in English and German and held by 418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer
The day of the locust ; and, the dream life of Balso Snell by
Nathanael West(
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34 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and held by 201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Day of the Locust is an exposure of the sordid reality beneath the surface of Hollywood, where West worked and The Dream Life of Balso Snell is a surrealist fantasy
34 editions published between 1962 and 2013 in English and held by 201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Day of the Locust is an exposure of the sordid reality beneath the surface of Hollywood, where West worked and The Dream Life of Balso Snell is a surrealist fantasy
Miss Lonelyhearts ; & the day of the locust : two novels by
Nathanael West(
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7 editions published between 1962 and 1998 in English and held by 174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools, '" observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of a society obsessed with mass-produced fantasies foretold much of what was to come in American life. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry
7 editions published between 1962 and 1998 in English and held by 174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Somehow or other I seem to have slipped in between all the 'schools, '" observed Nathanael West the year before his untimely death in 1940. "My books meet no needs except my own, their circulation is practically private and I'm lucky to be published." Yet today, West is widely recognized as a prophetic writer whose dark and comic vision of a society obsessed with mass-produced fantasies foretold much of what was to come in American life. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), which West envisioned as "a novel in the form of a comic strip," tells of an advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist who becomes tragically embroiled in the desperate lives of his readers. The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry
Miss Lonelyhearts by
Nathanael West(
Recording
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16 editions published between 1933 and 2016 in English and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in New York during the Great Depression, Miss Lonelyhearts concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column, but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery of those who write in, begging him for advice. Unable to find answers, and with his shaky Christianity ridiculed to razor-edged shards by his poisonous editor, he tumbles into alcoholism and a madness fueled by his own spiritual emptiness
16 editions published between 1933 and 2016 in English and held by 135 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in New York during the Great Depression, Miss Lonelyhearts concerns a nameless man assigned to produce a newspaper advice column, but as time passes he begins to break under the endless misery of those who write in, begging him for advice. Unable to find answers, and with his shaky Christianity ridiculed to razor-edged shards by his poisonous editor, he tumbles into alcoholism and a madness fueled by his own spiritual emptiness
The dream life of Balso Snell by
Nathanael West(
Book
)
14 editions published between 1931 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this 1931 Dada-inspired work, the first novel of the author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, the eponymous antihero stumbles across the Trojan Horse and climbs inside, embarking upon a dream within a dream. His journey through a mental jungle blends grandiose literary and religious allusions with erotic and scatological humor, as he encounters a contentious guide, a biographer writing a biography of a biographer, and a mystic trying to crucify himself with thumbtacks. Innovative and original, West's novel takes an unforgettable look at the dark side of the American dream. Unabridged republication of the classic 1931 edition
14 editions published between 1931 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this 1931 Dada-inspired work, the first novel of the author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, the eponymous antihero stumbles across the Trojan Horse and climbs inside, embarking upon a dream within a dream. His journey through a mental jungle blends grandiose literary and religious allusions with erotic and scatological humor, as he encounters a contentious guide, a biographer writing a biography of a biographer, and a mystic trying to crucify himself with thumbtacks. Innovative and original, West's novel takes an unforgettable look at the dark side of the American dream. Unabridged republication of the classic 1931 edition
Eine glatte Million oder die Demontage des Lemuel Pitkin : Roman by
Nathanael West(
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28 editions published between 1934 and 2018 in 11 languages and held by 133 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City on October 17th, 1903. Nathanael didn't really appreciate the qualities of an academic education. He forged his high school transcript to gain admission to Tufts and to get into Brown University appropriated the transcript of a fellow Tufts student who, conveniently, was also named Nathan Weinstein. However he did read extensively; French surrealists and British and Irish poets of the 1890s with a focus on unusual literary styles and content. Since Jewish students were not allowed to join most fraternities, his main friend was his future brother-in-law S. J. Perelman, a soon to be comic genius. West, in spite of his lack of effort, dig graduate from Brown with a degree. Moving to Paris for three months he changed his name to Nathanael West. With his family hit by financial problems in the late 1920s he returned home to a on off career in construction before becoming night manager of the Hotel Kenmore Hall in Manhattan. In 1931, Nathanael published The Dream Life of Balso Snell, a novel conceived in college. He was by now friendly with such writers as William Carlos Williams and Dashiell Hammett. Although West had been writing since college, it was only at this job that he found enough time to write. By 1933 he published Miss Lonelyhearts. In 1933, he was summoned to Hollywood as a contract scriptwriter for Columbia Pictures. With the advent of 1934 he published a third novel, A Cool Million. None of his works sold well and his finances were always under strain. He continued to work in Hollywood mainly on B Movies. Although the films were poor he was able to use the experiences to great effect for his classic tale The Day of the Locust. In November 1939 he switched studios to work for RKO Radio Pictures and worked on a screenplay that was eventually assigned to Alfred Hitchcock and became Suspicion. But Hitchcock already had his own adaptation and the screenplay lapsed into obscurity. On December 22, 1940, West and his wife Eileen McKenney were returning to Los Angeles from a hunting trip in Mexico. West ran a stop sign in El Centro, California, resulting in a collision in which he and Eileen were both killed
28 editions published between 1934 and 2018 in 11 languages and held by 133 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nathanael West was born Nathan Weinstein in New York City on October 17th, 1903. Nathanael didn't really appreciate the qualities of an academic education. He forged his high school transcript to gain admission to Tufts and to get into Brown University appropriated the transcript of a fellow Tufts student who, conveniently, was also named Nathan Weinstein. However he did read extensively; French surrealists and British and Irish poets of the 1890s with a focus on unusual literary styles and content. Since Jewish students were not allowed to join most fraternities, his main friend was his future brother-in-law S. J. Perelman, a soon to be comic genius. West, in spite of his lack of effort, dig graduate from Brown with a degree. Moving to Paris for three months he changed his name to Nathanael West. With his family hit by financial problems in the late 1920s he returned home to a on off career in construction before becoming night manager of the Hotel Kenmore Hall in Manhattan. In 1931, Nathanael published The Dream Life of Balso Snell, a novel conceived in college. He was by now friendly with such writers as William Carlos Williams and Dashiell Hammett. Although West had been writing since college, it was only at this job that he found enough time to write. By 1933 he published Miss Lonelyhearts. In 1933, he was summoned to Hollywood as a contract scriptwriter for Columbia Pictures. With the advent of 1934 he published a third novel, A Cool Million. None of his works sold well and his finances were always under strain. He continued to work in Hollywood mainly on B Movies. Although the films were poor he was able to use the experiences to great effect for his classic tale The Day of the Locust. In November 1939 he switched studios to work for RKO Radio Pictures and worked on a screenplay that was eventually assigned to Alfred Hitchcock and became Suspicion. But Hitchcock already had his own adaptation and the screenplay lapsed into obscurity. On December 22, 1940, West and his wife Eileen McKenney were returning to Los Angeles from a hunting trip in Mexico. West ran a stop sign in El Centro, California, resulting in a collision in which he and Eileen were both killed
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in English and held by 127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Scenario and Entered as second-class matter, two stories by S.J. Perelman, are not included in this reprint edition...."
in English and held by 127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Scenario and Entered as second-class matter, two stories by S.J. Perelman, are not included in this reprint edition...."
A cool million : the dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin by
Nathanael West(
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5 editions published between 1934 and 1991 in English and held by 126 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published between 1934 and 1991 in English and held by 126 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A cool million : [and] The dream life of Balso Snell by
Nathanael West(
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13 editions published between 1961 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."--Publisher's website
13 editions published between 1961 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Nathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story set in the midst of the Depression. The Dream Life of Balso Snell (1931) was described by one critic as "a fantasy about some rather scatological adventures of the hero in the innards of the Trojan horse."--Publisher's website
The collected works of Nathanael West by
Nathanael West(
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17 editions published between 1975 and 2011 in English and held by 88 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is a collection of West`s novels - "The Dream Life of Balso Snell", "Miss Lonely-hearts, "A Cool Million" and "The Day of the Locust"
17 editions published between 1975 and 2011 in English and held by 88 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is a collection of West`s novels - "The Dream Life of Balso Snell", "Miss Lonely-hearts, "A Cool Million" and "The Day of the Locust"
Miss Lonelyhearts : an opera in two acts by
Lowell Liebermann(
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 87 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The day of the locust by
Nathanael West(
Recording
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8 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in English and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Hollywood that Tod Hackett discovered when he moved there to learn set and costume designing was monstrous. And the people too were bizarre, desperate souls searching through the Hollywood dream factory for excitement as an answer to their dreary lives. Whether would-be actresses or retired plumbers from the midwest, all came to the California sunshine with expectations of health and good fortune
8 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in English and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Hollywood that Tod Hackett discovered when he moved there to learn set and costume designing was monstrous. And the people too were bizarre, desperate souls searching through the Hollywood dream factory for excitement as an answer to their dreary lives. Whether would-be actresses or retired plumbers from the midwest, all came to the California sunshine with expectations of health and good fortune
Lonelyhearts by
Vincent J Donehue(
Visual
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3 editions published between 1986 and 1992 in English and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A young journalist (Montgomery Clift) finds himself engrossed, appalled, and sickened by his work on the agony column. His relationship to Justy Sargeant (Dolores Hart) is soon threatened by his involvement and sympathy for the poor souls who bare all to Miss Lonelyhearts
3 editions published between 1986 and 1992 in English and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A young journalist (Montgomery Clift) finds himself engrossed, appalled, and sickened by his work on the agony column. His relationship to Justy Sargeant (Dolores Hart) is soon threatened by his involvement and sympathy for the poor souls who bare all to Miss Lonelyhearts
Novels for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied novels by
David Galens(
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains entries that provide information about thirteen novels, each with an author biography, plot summary, character analyses, discussion of themes and style, a historical context essay, a critical overview, a selection of criticism, and suggestions for further reading
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 68 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains entries that provide information about thirteen novels, each with an author biography, plot summary, character analyses, discussion of themes and style, a historical context essay, a critical overview, a selection of criticism, and suggestions for further reading
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Advice columnists Albee, Edward, American fiction American fiction--Jewish authors American literature Anderson, Maxwell, Authors, American Authors, English Cain, James M.--(James Mallahan), California--Los Angeles California--Los Angeles--Hollywood Catch-22 (Heller, Joseph) Cozzens, James Gould, Depressions in literature Dos Passos, John, Economics in literature Faulkner, William, Fearing, Kenneth, Fiction--Technique Fitzgerald, F. Scott--(Francis Scott), Golding, William, Heller, Joseph Hemingway, Ernest, Jewish fiction Jews in literature Jews--Intellectual life Judaism in literature Lewis, Sinclair, Literature and society MacLeish, Archibald, Miller, Henry, Miss Lonelyhearts (West, Nathanael) Motion picture industry New York (State)--New York Nineteen thirties Novelists, American Odets, Clifford, Pound, Ezra, Powers, J. F.--(James Farl), Roth, Henry Saroyan, William, Screenwriters Steinbeck, John, Stevens, Wallace, United States West, Nathanael, Wharton, Edith, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee, Edward) Wolfe, Thomas, Wright, Richard,
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Uést, Natanaél 1903-1940
Wallenstein Weinstein, Nathan
Wallenstein Weinstein, Nathan 1903-1940
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Weinstein, Nathan Wallenstein 1904-1940
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West, Nathanael 1903-1940
West, Nathanael (Pseud. de Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein)
Вайнстайн, Натан
Уэст, Натанаэл
וסט, נתנאל 1903־1940
וסט, נתניאל
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ناتانیل وست نویسنده آمریکایی
웨스트, 너새네이얼 1903-1940
웨스트, 너새니얼 1903-1940
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