Smiley, Jane
Overview
| Works: | 384 works in 1,798 publications in 10 languages and 80,435 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Domestic fiction History Novels Historical fiction Humorous fiction Satire Biography Psychological fiction College stories |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Bibliographic antecedent, Other, Scenarist |
| Classifications: | PS3569.M39, 813.54 |
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Most widely held works about
Jane Smiley
- Understanding Jane Smiley by Neil Nakadate( )
- Thirteen ways of looking at the novel by Jane Smiley( Book )
- A year at the races : reflections on horses, humans, love, money, and luck by Jane Smiley( Book )
- The secret lives of dentists by Jane Smiley( Visual )
- Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo : narratives of everyday justice by Jason S Polley( )
- Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 236 by Jeffrey W Hunter( )
- Contemporary literary criticism. by Jeffrey W Hunter( )
- Authors & artists for young adults( )
- American writers : a collection of literary biographies( )
- A thousand acres by Jocelyn Moorhouse( Visual )
- Jane Smiley by Jane Smiley( Recording )
- "I have set my affair on nothing" : literary theory, fiction, and the politics of antirepresentation by Jesse S Cohn( )
- A comparison of Willa Cather's "My Antonia" and Jane Smiley's "A thousand acres" by Phyllis Marie Nissila( )
- Romancing the mother : a twentieth-century tale by Dorothy A Sanko( )
- Acts of justice : risk and representation in contemporary American fiction by Jason S Polley( )
- Jane Smiley : (1949-)( )
- Smiley, Jane (Graves)( )
- Keep calm and query on : notes on writing (and living) with hope by Luke Reynolds( Book )
- Jane Smiley: Woman into novel, writing novels and family life by Jane Smiley( )
- Land, body, and kin in Jane Smiley's A Thousand acres, Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, and Louise Erdich's The Beet Queen by Meredith Woodward King( )
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Most widely held works by
Jane Smiley
A thousand acres by
Jane Smiley(
Book
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156 editions published between 1991 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 6,385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The time is 1979. Larry Cook, a proud and exacting farmer, whose family has lived on this land for four generations, unexpectedly decides to retire and turn over his valuable holdings to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense - a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even more successful. But the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea, and in anger her father cuts her out - setting off an explosive series of events that will leave none of them unchanged. A classic story of contemporary American life, A Thousand Acres strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a father, a daughter, a family
156 editions published between 1991 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 6,385 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The time is 1979. Larry Cook, a proud and exacting farmer, whose family has lived on this land for four generations, unexpectedly decides to retire and turn over his valuable holdings to his three daughters. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense - a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even more successful. But the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea, and in anger her father cuts her out - setting off an explosive series of events that will leave none of them unchanged. A classic story of contemporary American life, A Thousand Acres strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a father, a daughter, a family
Moo by
Jane Smiley(
Book
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79 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 3,853 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A satire on university life, describing the rackets and the intellectual dishonesty that goes on. The setting is the U of Moo where research into the destruction of rain forests is tailored to suit the corporation funding the project. By the author of A Thousand Acres
79 editions published between 1995 and 2017 in 7 languages and held by 3,853 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A satire on university life, describing the rackets and the intellectual dishonesty that goes on. The setting is the U of Moo where research into the destruction of rain forests is tailored to suit the corporation funding the project. By the author of A Thousand Acres
Horse heaven by
Jane Smiley(
Book
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57 editions published between 2000 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 3,295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and "track brats" on a two-year journey through the racing cycle
57 editions published between 2000 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 3,295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel set in the world of thoroughbred racing follows a group of trainers, jockeys, and "track brats" on a two-year journey through the racing cycle
Some luck by
Jane Smiley(
Book
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11 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and held by 3,180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher
11 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and held by 3,180 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"An epic novel that spans thirty years in the lives of a farm family in Iowa, telling a parallel story of the changes taking place in America from 1920 through the early 1950s"--Provided by publisher
Private life : a novel by
Jane Smiley(
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34 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed
34 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret Mayfield is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed
The all-true travels and adventures of Lidie Newton : a novel by
Jane Smiley(
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51 editions published between 1998 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 3,122 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel on 1855 Bloody Kansas, an armed clash between slaveholders and abolitionists, often referred to as a prologue to the Civil War. The heroine is Lidie Newton, the wife of a slain abolitionist. Dressed as a boy, she embarks on a mission of revenge against his killer. By the author of Moo
51 editions published between 1998 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 3,122 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novel on 1855 Bloody Kansas, an armed clash between slaveholders and abolitionists, often referred to as a prologue to the Civil War. The heroine is Lidie Newton, the wife of a slain abolitionist. Dressed as a boy, she embarks on a mission of revenge against his killer. By the author of Moo
Ten days in the hills by
Jane Smiley(
Book
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36 editions published between 1984 and 2014 in English and held by 3,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But a house full of guests demands attention. They share their stories of Hollywood past and present; they watch films in Max's luxe screening room; they gossip by the swimming pool, and tussle in the many bedrooms. The tension mounts, sparks fly, and Smiley delivers a virtuosic, unputdownable romp of a novel about love, war, sex, politics, storytelling--and, of course, redemption--that's Hollywood!
36 editions published between 1984 and 2014 in English and held by 3,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But a house full of guests demands attention. They share their stories of Hollywood past and present; they watch films in Max's luxe screening room; they gossip by the swimming pool, and tussle in the many bedrooms. The tension mounts, sparks fly, and Smiley delivers a virtuosic, unputdownable romp of a novel about love, war, sex, politics, storytelling--and, of course, redemption--that's Hollywood!
Early warning by
Jane Smiley(
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33 editions published between 2015 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,087 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and '70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth -- for some -- of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam -- leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation
33 editions published between 2015 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,087 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and '70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth -- for some -- of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals; a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco; and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam -- leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation
The Georges and the Jewels by
Jane Smiley(
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5 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 2,965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life
5 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 2,965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Seventh-grader Abby Lovitt grows up on her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, learning to train the horses her father sells and trying to reconcile her strict religious upbringing with her own ideas about life
Good faith by
Jane Smiley(
Book
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46 editions published between 2003 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 2,766 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman
46 editions published between 2003 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 2,766 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman
Charles Dickens by
Jane Smiley(
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26 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,648 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great expectations and A Christmas carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels," Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly energetic-and lionized. As she makes clear, Dickens not only led the action-packed life of a prolific writer, editor, and family man but, balancing the artistic and the commercial in his work, he also consciously sustained his status as one of the first modern "celebrities." Charles Dickens offers brilliant interpretations of almost all the major works, an exploration of his narrative techniques and his innovative voice and themes, and a reflection on how his richly varied lower-class cameos sprang from an experience and passion more personal than his public knew. Jane Smiley touches, too, on controversial details that include Dickens's obsession with money and squabbles with publishers, his unhappy marriage, and the rumors of an affair. Here is a fresh look at the dazzling personality of a verbal magician and the fascinating times behind the classics we read in school and continue to enjoy today
26 editions published between 2002 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,648 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that have won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley finds a kindred spirit in the author of classics such as Great expectations and A Christmas carol. As "his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels," Smiley's Charles Dickens is at once a sensitive profile of the great master and a fascinating meditation on the writing life. Smiley evokes Dickens as he might have seemed to his contemporaries: convivial, astute, boundlessly energetic-and lionized. As she makes clear, Dickens not only led the action-packed life of a prolific writer, editor, and family man but, balancing the artistic and the commercial in his work, he also consciously sustained his status as one of the first modern "celebrities." Charles Dickens offers brilliant interpretations of almost all the major works, an exploration of his narrative techniques and his innovative voice and themes, and a reflection on how his richly varied lower-class cameos sprang from an experience and passion more personal than his public knew. Jane Smiley touches, too, on controversial details that include Dickens's obsession with money and squabbles with publishers, his unhappy marriage, and the rumors of an affair. Here is a fresh look at the dazzling personality of a verbal magician and the fascinating times behind the classics we read in school and continue to enjoy today
Golden age : a novel by
Jane Smiley(
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29 editions published between 2015 and 2016 in English and held by 2,394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future"--
29 editions published between 2015 and 2016 in English and held by 2,394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future"--
The Greenlanders by
Jane Smiley(
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49 editions published between 1988 and 2017 in English and German and held by 2,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A novel that draws us into a fourteenth-century Norse world at once harsh and beautiful, bleak and opulent with life."
49 editions published between 1988 and 2017 in English and German and held by 2,302 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A novel that draws us into a fourteenth-century Norse world at once harsh and beautiful, bleak and opulent with life."
Ordinary love ; & Good will : two novellas by
Jane Smiley(
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33 editions published between 1989 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,833 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In "Ordinary Love" Rachel contemplates the last two decades and the remarkable fact of her children's survival. In "Good will" Bob and his life style are no bulwark against the effect his isolation begins to have on his family
33 editions published between 1989 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,833 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In "Ordinary Love" Rachel contemplates the last two decades and the remarkable fact of her children's survival. In "Good will" Bob and his life style are no bulwark against the effect his isolation begins to have on his family
Duplicate keys by
Jane Smiley(
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32 editions published between 1984 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A divorced midwesterner living in a communal building in Manhattan discovers two of her friends murdered in her suddenly dangerous home, in a gripping tale of murder and treachery
32 editions published between 1984 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A divorced midwesterner living in a communal building in Manhattan discovers two of her friends murdered in her suddenly dangerous home, in a gripping tale of murder and treachery
Ten days in the hills by
Jane Smiley(
Recording
)
19 editions published between 2007 and 2014 in English and held by 1,508 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But a house full of guests demands attention. They share their stories of Hollywood past and present; they watch films in Max's luxe screening room; they gossip by the swimming pool, and tussle in the many bedrooms. The tension mounts, sparks fly, and Smiley delivers a virtuosic, unputdownable romp of a novel about love, war, sex, politics, storytelling--and, of course, redemption--that's Hollywood!
19 editions published between 2007 and 2014 in English and held by 1,508 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On the morning after the 2003 Academy Awards, Max--an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned--and his lover, Elena, are in bed, still groggy from last night's red-carpet festivities. They are talking about movies, talking about love, talking about the just-begun war in Iraq. But a house full of guests demands attention. They share their stories of Hollywood past and present; they watch films in Max's luxe screening room; they gossip by the swimming pool, and tussle in the many bedrooms. The tension mounts, sparks fly, and Smiley delivers a virtuosic, unputdownable romp of a novel about love, war, sex, politics, storytelling--and, of course, redemption--that's Hollywood!
The age of grief by
Jane Smiley(
Book
)
41 editions published between 1977 and 2017 in English and held by 1,460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this collection of five short stories and one novella, the author presents a contemplation of the sometimes mutually exclusive matters of love, friendship, and marriage
41 editions published between 1977 and 2017 in English and held by 1,460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In this collection of five short stories and one novella, the author presents a contemplation of the sometimes mutually exclusive matters of love, friendship, and marriage
Barn blind : a novel by
Jane Smiley(
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27 editions published between 1980 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting. But the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best. Her ambition is the galvanizing force in Jane Smiley's first novel, a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and bring them all to tragedy. Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, Barn Blind is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the excesses we commit to achieve success."Chilling ... Jane Smiley handles with skill and understanding the mercurial molasses of adolescence, and the inchoate, cumbersome love that family members feel for one another."--The New York Times
27 editions published between 1980 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The verdant pastures of a farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting. But the horses that graze there have become the obsession of a woman who sees them as the fulfillment of every wish: to win, to be honored, to be the best. Her ambition is the galvanizing force in Jane Smiley's first novel, a force that will drive a wedge between her and her family, and bring them all to tragedy. Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, Barn Blind is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the excesses we commit to achieve success."Chilling ... Jane Smiley handles with skill and understanding the mercurial molasses of adolescence, and the inchoate, cumbersome love that family members feel for one another."--The New York Times
At paradise gate : a novel by
Jane Smiley(
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42 editions published between 1981 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a man, whose wife and daughters refuse to accept the fact that he is dying
42 editions published between 1981 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The story of a man, whose wife and daughters refuse to accept the fact that he is dying
The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer by
Jane Smiley(
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11 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 1,270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description
11 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 1,270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description
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- United States Navy
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- Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Author
- Nakadate, Neil Author
- King, Lorelei Narrator
- Atanasoff, John V. (John Vincent)
- Sperry Rand (Corporation)
- Poe, Richard Narrator
- Castillo, Lauren Illustrator Artist
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Abolitionists Aging parents Armed Forces--Officers Authorship Books and reading California California--Los Angeles--Hollywood Christian life City and town life Civilization Dickens, Charles, Divorced men Domestic fiction, American Families Family farms Farm life Fathers and daughters Fiction Fiction--Authorship Gossip Greenland Horsemen and horsewomen Horse racing Horses--Training Inheritance and succession Interpersonal relations Iowa Marriage Middle Ages Missouri Motion pictures--Production and direction New York (State)--New York Novelists, American Novelists, English Officers' spouses Parent and adult child Parent and child Ranch life Real estate agents Real estate development Rural families Sisters Smiley, Jane Social change Success in business United States United States.--Navy Universities and colleges Widows Women pioneers
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Alternative Names
Ioanna Smiley
Jane Smiley Amerikaans schrijfster
Jane Smiley novelista estadounidense
Jane Smiley romancieră americană
Jane Smiley romancière américaine
Jane Smiley US-amerikanische Autorin
Smailija, Džeina 1949-
Smiley, Jane 1949-
Смайли, Джейн
סמיילי, ג׳יין
סמיילי, ג׳יין, 1949-
סמיילי, ג׳יין מחברת רומנים אמריקאית
جین اسمایلی نویسنده آمریکایی
스마일리, 제인 1949-
ジェーン・スマイリー
Languages
English
(809)
German (35)
Spanish (21)
French (7)
Turkish (2)
Polish (2)
Portuguese (1)
Norwegian (1)
Hebrew (1)
Multiple languages (1)
German (35)
Spanish (21)
French (7)
Turkish (2)
Polish (2)
Portuguese (1)
Norwegian (1)
Hebrew (1)
Multiple languages (1)