John Knowles

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John Knowles


Born
in Fairmont, West Virginia, The United States
September 16, 1926

Died
November 29, 2001

Genre


John Knowles was an American novelist best known for A Separate Peace (1959).

Average rating: 3.6 · 232,775 ratings · 10,945 reviews · 96 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Separate Peace

3.60 avg rating — 230,672 ratings — published 1959 — 220 editions
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Peace Breaks Out

3.50 avg rating — 1,180 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions
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Phineas

3.54 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1968 — 11 editions
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Indian Summer

3.35 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions
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Study Guide to A Separate P...

3.71 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2007
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The Paragon

3.35 avg rating — 103 ratings5 editions
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A Stolen Past

3.71 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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Spreading Fires

3.14 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions
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Morning In Antibes

3.35 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions
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A Vein of Riches

3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions
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“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
John Knowles, A Separate Peace

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.”
John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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