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The Dickens boy : a novel /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022Copyright date: �2020Edition: First Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: 401 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781982169145
  • 1982169141
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.3
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F KEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000587372

Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-400).

Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles.

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