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The Natural

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  • "Assistant"@en
  • "The natural"@it
  • "Natural"@it
  • "Natural"@en
  • "Natural"

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  • "He's a natural athlete and everything is going his way--the game he loves, and the woman he thought he'd lost. But he's up against the corrupters, the seducers, and the glory destroyers."
  • "Roy Hobbs returns to the Major Leagues at age 34. Still a tremendous player, he carries his team into the race for the National League pennant. However, he is plagued with romantic indecision and the temptation to fix games."
  • ""The ball was now a dew drop staring him in the eye so he stepped back and swung from his toes". This is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bernard Malamud's classic tale of myth, money, glory, greed--and the tarnishing of a shining American icon."
  • "Literature GuidesCreated by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers"@en
  • "In award-winning author Bernard Malamud's first novel, gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin."@en
  • "Román známého amerického spisovatele, zachycující na pozadí amerického sportovního prostředí lidský osud profesionálního hráče baseballu. Hlavní hrdina románu, prostý a trochu jednoduchý chlapec z venkova, má smůlu v tom žejeho přirozený talent se souhrou nepříznivých náhod uplatní až příliš pozdě, tj. ve věku, který znamená konec závodní činnosti, a tak má možnost vyniknout jen nakrátce a jeho úspěch rychle končí. Příběh, který je možnocharakterizovat jako dramatickou psychologickou studii hráče."
  • "Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, makes the mistake of pronouncing aloud his dream: to be the best there ever was. Such hubris, of course, invites divine intervention, but the brilliance of Bernard Malamud's novel is the second chance it offers its hero, elevating him--and his story--into the realm of myth."@en
  • "Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin."@en
  • "Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin."
  • "Malamud uses the fanatical and aggressive world of professional baseball to mirror contemporary society."
  • "Uses the fanatical and aggressive world of professional baseball to mirror contemporary society."
  • "Uses the fanatical and aggressive world of professional baseball to mirror contemporary society."@en
  • ""The fanaticism and seriousness of baseball to both players and fans are vividly pictured in this novel about a man whose sole ambition was to be 'the greatest ever.' Roy Hobbs, who has made his own bat, Wonderboy, starts off at nineteen years of age to a possible spot on a big team. That promising beginning is blasted when he has an encounter with an erratic, seductive woman. When we next meet Roy fifteen years later, he is trying again to realize his dream as the best baseball player. His wrong-headed decisions and the exciting descriptions of the games played by his team, The Knights, make this a tense story up to the last out." Shapiro. Fic for Youth. 2d edition."@en
  • "Now an American baseball hero and a winner after a dark period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But his is up against corrupter's, seducers, and glory destroyers. And he has to win the toughest game of his life."
  • "Levensverhaal van een Amerikaanse honkbalspeler."
  • "Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has an opportunity to share in their race for the pennant."@en
  • "Now an American baseball hero and a winner after a dark period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But he is up against corrupters, seducers, and glory destroyers. And he has to win the toughtest game of his life."@en
  • "Now an American baseball hero and a winner after a dark period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But he is up against corrupters, seducers, and glory destroyers. And he has to win the toughtest game of his life."
  • "Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first--and some would say still the best--novel ever written about baseball. In it Malamud takes on the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era--and invests it with the hardscrabble poetry, grand and believable, that runs through all his best work."@en
  • "Roy Hobbs becomes a mythical figure in the Arthurian world of baseball, as his early career is damaged by indescretion and later he struggles to make a great comeback while dealing with fear, media hype and betrayal, and new temptations."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Baseball stories"@en
  • "Baseball stories"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Publishers' advertisements"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Study guides"@en
  • "Romans"
  • "Sports stories"@en
  • "Sports stories"
  • "Verhalend proza"

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  • "Der Unbeugsame : Roman"
  • "Самородок"
  • "The Natural"@en
  • "The Natural"
  • "Natural"
  • "Natural"@en
  • "Őstehetség : [regény]"@hu
  • "Smolař"
  • "Two novels: The natural & The assistant"
  • "Two novels: The natural & The assistant"@en
  • "The natural"@it
  • "The natural"@en
  • "The natural"
  • "T'ien sheng hao shou"
  • "Two novels. The Natural : and ; The Assistant"
  • "Two novels: The natural & the assistant"@en
  • "Tian sheng hao shou"
  • "Naech'urŏl : Bŏnadŭ Maellŏmŏdŭ changp'yŏn sosŏl = The natural"
  • "Natural (Motion picture)"@en
  • "Two novels : The natural and The assistant"
  • "Östehetség"
  • "天生好手"
  • "The natural : [novel]"
  • "Őstehetség"
  • "Two novels : the natural & the assistant"
  • "내추럴 : 버나드맬러머드장편소설 = The natural"
  • "Two novels"
  • "Two novels"@en
  • "Two novels : the Natural and the Assistant"@en
  • "De favoriet : roman"
  • "Two novels : the natural and The assistant"@en
  • "Der Unbeugsame"
  • "El Mejor"
  • "De favoriet"
  • "El mejor"@es
  • "El mejor"
  • "Samorodok"
  • "The Natural. [A novel.]"@en
  • "Le meilleur"
  • "Il migliore"@it
  • "Il migliore"
  • "Two novels: The natural and the assistant"@en

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