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a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving
Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels
This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them
I just couldn't see a way out
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë religion getting fatJane Eyre is a wildly emotional romance with a lonely heroine and a tormented Byronic hero, pathetic orphans, dark secrets, and a madwoman in the attic. When it was published in 1847, it was a great popular success. The power of the writing, the masterly handling of the narrative, and the boldly realistic style were much admired. But many found it difficult to believe that Currer Bell, the pseudonymous author, was Charlotte Bront , a young woman from