A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1955)

by Gabriel García Márquez

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Gabriel García Márquez	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Maldonado, Georgina	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rabassa, Gregory	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Vendrell, Carme Sole	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Collected Stories by Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library (Marquez 2014) by Gabriel García Márquez (indirect)

One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (indirect)

The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction by Ann Charters

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy by Ann VanderMeer

Death Constant Beyond Love | A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | The Challenge by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Cuentos Requeridos 1 by Cántaro

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One Hundred Years of Solitude and Selected Stories by Габриель Гарсиа Маркес

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | The Sea of Lost Time by Gabriel García Márquez

Faith: Stories: Short Fiction on the Varieties and Vagaries of Faith by C. Michael Curtis

Foreign fictions: 25 contemporary stories from Canada, Europe, Latin America by John Biguenet

Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense by Laurence Perrine

Literature as Meaning (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics) by Wendy Steiner

An Introduction to Fiction by X. J. Kennedy

The Literary Experience by Bruce Beiderwell

Advanced Language & Literature: For Honors and Pre-AP® English Courses by Renee H. Shea

Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay by Robert DiYanni

The Norton Introduction to Literature (Shorter Edition) by Alison Booth

Literature by James H. Pickering

Juxtapositions: Ideas for College Writers by Marlene Clark

Where the Stories Come From: Beginning to Write Fiction by Sibyl Johnston

Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing by Laurie G. Kirszner

The Art of the Short Story by Dana Gioia

Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology by David Young

Macondóban hull az eső : elbeszélések by Gabriel García Márquez

María dos Prazeres and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship and Other Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World and Other Stories by جابرييل جارسيا ماركيز

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Un|| señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes | A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings • VHS by Fernando Birri

Kneehigh: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Little Angel Theatre

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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: Reviewed (English 100) by Olga Wawer

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A Study Guide for Gabriel García Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Tim Akers

Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez (Study Guide): A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by LLC Books

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings-complete summary & analysis by rajasir by Raja Sharma

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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Original title

Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes

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كهل ذو جناحين عظيمين

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1955

1972 (eng.)

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On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench.

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