Gladiator
by Philip Wylie
1930
ISBN/ASIN: 1596540133
Number of pages: 180
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Gladiator is a brave novel that unflinchingly portrays people at their ugliest and pettiest, all the while reflecting on the better worlds that could be were it not for humanity's relentless failings. The novel partially inspired the comic-book character Superman.
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