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Scenes from a Writer's Life

by Ruskin Bond · 1997

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Autobiographical reminiscences of author about his childhood and youth.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
writerswritersMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisbiographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 178 pages

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