Teaching African Literature Today

Published on: 2011
Page Count: 178 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Education
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
Embeddable: Yes
PDF Available: Yes
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ISBN-13: 9781847015112
ISBN-10: 1847015115
... A very Old Man with Enormous Wings' is well known. In that story, a ragged old angel has a mishap as he is coming to earth for the soul of a young child and breaks his wings in consequence. The angel's scruffy wings and antique ...

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