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Dickens`s heavily autobiographical novel describing a young man`s rise in the world is a classic coming-of-age story. David Copperfield, the narrator, is orphaned at a tender age and raised first by his brutal stepfather (who halts his schooling and sends him to work in a factory--as did Dickens`s own father), then by a kindly aunt. He trains for a career in law, but eventually becomes a writer. An ill-advised marriage brings him considerable unhappiness, but not long after his wife`s death he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. A sprawling portrait of life in Victorian England, DAVID COPPERFIELD is perhaps Dickens`s most popular work, and it contains many of the characters--Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Betsey Trotwood, Steerforth, and Little Emily--who gave Dickens his reputation as the finest literary portraitist of his age.
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A troubled family on a camping trip encounter four men on the lam, and tragedy, death, and a frightening manhunt through rough terrain ensue.
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No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley. She was still a Sackett -- sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldnt ignore a challenge. A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless killers whos stop at nothing to cheat her out of her inheritance. There she'd prove once and for all the she could ride the river with the best.
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In William Boyd's collection of 14 stories, there are many about people in the movie business, among them Notebook No. 9 and the erotic The View from Yves Hill. Other stories include A Haunting (in which a 21st-century man is inhabited by the spirit of a long-dead Scot) and Incandescence (which tells its story from multiple points of view). Adult Video and the title story are both about a womanizing journalist named Edward.
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