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Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo |
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective… |
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A People's History of the World
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Chris Harman,Napoleon Ryan |
xv, 728 pages ; 21 cm |
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Poverty Safari
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Darren McGarvey |
223 pages ; 20 cm |
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Tortilla Flat
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John Steinbeck |
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. As… |
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Fingersmith
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Sarah Waters |
Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babi… |
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Life at the Bottom
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Theodore Dalrymple |
"Life at the Bottom offers a searing account - probably the best yet published - of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does.".
"Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats th… |
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