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Year of Wonders
by
Brooks, Geraldine
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HP
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13: 9780732279028
ISBN: 073227902X
Description: Near Fine. Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders describes the 17th-century plague that i s carried from London to a small Derbyshire village by an itinerant tailor. As villagers begin, one by one, to die, the rest face a choice: do they fl ee their village in hope of outrunning the plague or do they stay? The lord of the manor and his family pack up and leave. The rector, Michael Mompell ion, argues forcefully that the villagers should stay put, isolate themselv es from neighboring towns and ... read more
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