The Snake

Name: The Snake
Author: Mircea Eliade

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Mircea Eliade

Romanian author and religious historian whose fiction blends the mythical with the realistic in extraordinary ways. The Snake and The Forbidden Forest are rich explorations of Romanian folk mythology and modern alienation.

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