The Known World by Edward P. Jones
The Known World

Edward P. Jones

The Known World

Edward P. Jones

400 pages 2003

26 editions

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becom...

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