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" Like so many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child," wrote Charles Dickens. "And his name is David Copperfield."
Of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield most closely reflects the events of his own life. The story of an abandoned waif who discovers life...
2) Coal river
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"An historical novel that explores one young woman's determination to put an end to child labor in a Pennsylvania mining town"--
As a child Emma Malloy left isolated Coal River, Pennsylvania, vowing never to return. Now, orphaned and penniless, she travels back to the rough-hewn community where she is treated like a servant by her relatives, working for free in the company store. Miners and their impoverished families must pay inflated prices for...
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In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.
The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news. A young, highly intelligent man named Christian...
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