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A single pebble

John Hersey

1956122 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1956
first published
  • 1956Knopf · 181 pages · ENG
  • 1956Hamish Hamilton · 183 pages · ENG
  • 1964Heinemann Educational · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780435120788
  • 1965Knopf · 181 pages · ENG
  • 1968Bantam Books · 122 pages · ENG
  • 1979Panther · 126 pages · ENGISBN 9780586049365
  • 1989Vintage Books · 181 pages · ENGISBN 9780394756974
  • 1992Thorndike Press · 186 pages · ENGISBN 9781560543381
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An often perilous journey up the Yangtze River aboard a Chinese junk provides a young and impatient American engineer new insights into life's meaning.

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