Historical fiction
Proletarian Hearts: Part Two
By Paul Haedo
Otto and Adolf continue their struggle to pursue creative lives in Vienna. Poverty and the city’s harsh realities test their determination, as the two friends resist the pressures that threaten to defeat their ambitions.
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Choose this continuation to stay with the creative ambitions and material difficulties established in the first part. Vienna remains the setting for the friends’ struggle.
What to expect
The opening circumstances concern poverty, determination, and efforts to maintain a creative life.
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Reading Part One first provides the narrative introduction. Fictional scenes and dialogue should not be used as historical evidence.
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What does the first part prepare you to notice in the continuation?
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- Proletarian Hearts: Part One
Another connected work; this does not prescribe an order. Creative ambition and the conditions around it — Follow artistic hopes alongside the practical circumstances in which people try to pursue them.
- Stack It Tall: A Guide to Writing
A shared reading question connects these books. Creative ambition and the conditions around it — Follow artistic hopes alongside the practical circumstances in which people try to pursue them.
- The Director
A shared reading question connects these books. Creative ambition and the conditions around it — Follow artistic hopes alongside the practical circumstances in which people try to pursue them.
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Connected works; order not confirmed.
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Chapter One
"Hmm," Adolf said, "very interesting."
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Proletarian Hearts: Part One
Another connected work; this does not prescribe an order. Creative ambition and the conditions around it — Follow artistic hopes alongside the practical circumstances in which people try to pursue them.
Stack It Tall: A Guide to Writing
A shared reading question connects these books. Creative ambition and the conditions around it — Follow artistic hopes alongside the practical circumstances in which people try to pursue them.
The Director
A shared reading question connects these books. Creative ambition and the conditions around it — Follow artistic hopes alongside the practical circumstances in which people try to pursue them.