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" The last Dickens : "
Matthew Pearl.
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BL
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675289
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b504478
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| Main Entry
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Pearl, Matthew.
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| Title & Author
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The last Dickens : : a novel /\ Matthew Pearl.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Random House Trade,, c2009.
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| Series Statement
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Random House reader's circle.
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396 p. ;; 21 cm.
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| ISBN
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0812978021 (pbk.)
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: 9780812978025 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Includes reading group questions and topics for discussion (p. [395]-396)
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| Abstract
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Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Dickens, Charles,1812-1870-- Manuscripts
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Osgood, James R., (James Ripley),1836-1892
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Publishers and publishing, Fiction.
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London (England), Fiction.
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