The Three Sirens. A Novel

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1963
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In the late eighteenth century, a man influenced by William Godwin's (1756-1836) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) settles his family on a Polynesian island and, in cooperation with the local natives, establishes a sexually free and generally egalitarian community. Most of the novel is concerned with the community being discovered and visited in the twentieth century.

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1963

Publisher
Simon and Schuster
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New York
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1963 Wallace, Irving (1916-90). The Three Sirens. A Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster. DLC, L, O, PSt

In the late eighteenth century, a man influenced by William Godwin’s (1756-1836) An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) settles his family on a Polynesian island and, in cooperation with the local natives, establishes a sexually free and generally egalitarian community. Most of the novel is concerned with the community being discovered and visited in the twentieth century.

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(1916-90)

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