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The Octoroon

The Octoroon

M. E. Braddon / MEBraddon

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White Press
Año de edición:
2014
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9781473312579
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The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother’s slave origins. This book, originally published as a series between 1861 and 1862, was Braddon’s second anonymous novel and is now known as a classic anti-slavery novel. Mary Elizabeth Braddon was born in Soho, London, England in 1835. She had her first serial novel published in 1861 and was an extremely prolific writer for the rest of her life. She produced more than 80 novels as well as several stage plays.

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