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The natural

  • Bernard Malamud,
  • SparkNotes Staff

3.00

2 ratings

Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.

Genres

  • Baseball players
  • Fiction
  • Baseball
  • Baseball stories
  • Reading Level-Grade 11
  • Reading Level-Grade 10
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Large type books
  • Baseball, fiction
  • Children's fiction
  • England, fiction
  • Gay men, fiction
  • Fiction, sports
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About the authors

  • Bernard Malamud

    26 Apr 1914 - 18 Mar 1986

    4.07

    15 ratings · 144 works

  • SparkNotes Staff

    4.42

    53 ratings · 765 works

Editions

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    Penguin Random House

    2017

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    Perfection Learning

    Jul 01, 2003

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    Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

    Apr 13, 2021

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    Pocket Books

    1974-01-01

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[Book club ed.]

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

1952

  • Edition cover

    Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy

    1952

  • Edition cover

    Time Incorporated

    1966

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    January 1980

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    Perennial (HarperCollins)

    November 2000

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    Perennial (HarperCollins)

    November 2000

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    Unabridged edition

    Blackstone Audio Inc.

    June 1, 2007

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    Avon Books

    August 1995

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    Avon

    1952

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    [1st ed.]

    Harcourt, Brace

    1952

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    Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

    2014

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    Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

    2007

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    Noonday Press

    May 08, 1961

  • Edition cover

    Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    2003

  • Edition cover

    Dell

    1965

  • Edition cover

    Harcourt, Brace

    1952-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Dell

    1967-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Turtleback Books

    2003-07-07

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    Pocket Books

    1973-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Harcourt Brace & World

    1952-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Harcourt, Brace

    1952-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Harcourt, Brace

    1952-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Time Incorporated

    1966-01-01

  • Edition cover

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    1964

  • Edition cover

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    2003-07-07

  • Edition cover

    Dell

    1967-01-01

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    Penguin Random House

    1990

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    Farrar, Straus & Giroux

    2003

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    Penguin in association with Eyre & Spottiswoode

    1981

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    Penguin

    1967

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    Penguin in association with Chatto & Windus

    1992

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    Dell

    1965

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    Eyre & Spottiswode

    1963

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    Noonday Press

    1965

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    Pocket

    September 3, 1978

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    Bt Bound

    October 1999

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    Farrar

    1966

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    Blackstone Audiobooks

    June 1993

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    1a ed.

    Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.

    1984

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    Edizione CDE spa

    1984

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    Noonday Press

    1952

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    Eyre & Spottiswoode

    1963

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    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    1971

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    Spolocnost Priatelov Krásnych Kníh

    1992

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    Avon

    1982