Name: The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol. 4 Hardcover Edition
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Author: Charles M. Schulz
ISBN: 9781560976707

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The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol. 4 Hardcover Edition

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Physical Book

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Publisher

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

344

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

17.7 x 22.1 x 3.4 cm

Weight

0.93 kg.

ISBN

1560976705

ISBN13

9781560976707

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Synopsis "The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958: Vol. 4 Hardcover Edition "

As the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy's bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing two-week Lost Weekend sequence of blanketlessness. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom, with spectacularly lost kites, humiliating baseball losses (including one where he becomes the Goat and is driven from the field in a chorus of BAAAAHs); at least his newly acquired pencil pal affords him some comfort. Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, and Patty are also around, as is an increasingly Beethoven-fixated Schroeder. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He's at the center of the most graphically dynamic and action-packed episodes (the ones in which he attempts to grab Linus's blanket at a dead run). He even tentatively tries to sleep on the crest of his doghouse roof once or twice, with mixed results. And his imitations continue apace, including penguins, anteaters, sea monsters, vultures and (much to her chagrin) Lucy. No wonder the beagle is the cover star of this volume.

Charles M. Schulz

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Creator of the famous comic Snoopy (Peanuts) whose strips have been adapted into cartoons and also reproduced on multiple merchandising and textile clothing items. Undoubtedly, Snoopy is the most influential and important comic strip of the 20th century (no offense to Jim Davis' Garfield). Its fame has even made it the mascot of NASA. It has been published in 2,600 newspapers in 40 languages, reaching 355 million people.

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Jonathan Franzen

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Jonathan Franzen (Western Springs, Illinois, 1959) was chosen in 1996 among the Best Young American Novelists by the prestigious Granta magazine. Until that date, he had written the novels Twenty-Seven City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), but the explosion of his enormous narrative talent took place in 2001 with the release of The Corrections (Salamandra, 2012), which marked a turning point in his career: he won the National Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was a finalist for the Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner awards, and was discovered by millions of readers around the world. The definitive endorsement came in 2010 with Freedom (Salamandra, 2011), a novel that received the most fervent praise from a wide array of critics and experts from various countries. In Spain, he won the Best Novel of the Year Award, given by the readers of Qué Leer magazine. Five years later, in the fall of 2015, the publication of Purity once again shocked English-speaking readers and established him as one of the great American writers of our time. Additionally, Franzen is the author of five non-fiction works: How to Be Alone (2002), The Discomfort Zone (2006), Farther Away (Salamandra, 2012), The Kraus Project (2013), and The End of the End of the Earth (Salamandra, 2019).

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