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Language
English
Description
Boston, 1870. When James Osgood receives word that literary master Charles Dickens has passed, he sends his clerk Daniel Sand to retrieve the author's final, yet unfinished novel with hopes that the book will resuscitate his failing publishing company, Fields & Osgood. However, when Sand turns up dead with the manuscript missing, Osgood, along with Sand's older sister Rebecca, travel to England to capture the killer and fetch Dickens' elusive novel....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"For a hundred years, loose copyright laws created a unique opportunity: Books could be published without an author's permission. Authors gained fame but suffered financially; publishers reaped enormous profits while readers got their books on the cheap. Those who pirated manuscripts were known as bookaneers. Matthew Pearl brings us inside the lost world of these doomed outlaws and the incredible heist that brought their era to a close"--From the...
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