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The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine.… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
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Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to… — Anita Rau Badami Copy Share Image
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A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
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