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Sweet days of discipline is narrated by a boarding school student who has attended several such schools, who has been defiant, who is a disinterested student, who becomes nearly obsessed with a new student disciplined, independent, nihilistic. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry. Ettie, the mother, is old and from an older world than the rapidly modernizing. She started working as a teacher in a calvinist allgirl school in debrecen and hodmezovasarhely. In big little lies as well as her previous novels, including last years compelling the husbands secret, liane moriarty chronicles what at first appear to be the simple, daytoday experiences of mothers and wives in her native australia. The door nyrb classics kindle edition by szabo, magda, smith. April 2015 morgan childs fiction the door by magda szabo, translated by len rix.
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