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The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Known World

Edward P. Jones

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

400 pages first pub 2003 (view editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becom...

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