The Dickens boy a novel

The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler's List and Napoleon's Last Island is at his triumphant best with this "engrossing and transporting" (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens's son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tent...

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Main Author: Keneally, Thomas (Author)
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Language:English
Published: 2022.
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