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Jack Maggs

2007-12-18 Fiction
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Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 440/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jack Maggs by : Peter Carey

Download or read book Jack Maggs written by Peter Carey. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation. Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the center, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling. Not since Caleb Carr's The Alienist have the shadowy city streets of the nineteenth century lit up with such mystery and romance.

Jack Maggs

2015-03-03 Fiction
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Release : 2015-03-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jack Maggs by : Peter Carey

Download or read book Jack Maggs written by Peter Carey. This book was released on 2015-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of characters -- each with their own secrets. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the epicentre is Maggs himself, at once frightening, mystifying, and utterly compelling.

Jack Maggs

2010-05-20 Fiction
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Release : 2010-05-20
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 068/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Jack Maggs by : Peter Carey

Download or read book Jack Maggs written by Peter Carey. This book was released on 2010-05-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London,1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? And why is Jack himself an object of such interest to Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow burglar - in this case of people's minds, of their histories and inner phantoms? A thrilling story of mesmerism and possession, of dangerous bargains and illicit love against the backdrop of Victorian London.

Witnessing the Past

2004 Australia
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Release : 2004
Genre : Australia
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Book Rating : 169/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Witnessing the Past by : Sigrun Meinig

Download or read book Witnessing the Past written by Sigrun Meinig. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amnesia

2015-01-13 Fiction
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Release : 2015-01-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Amnesia by : Peter Carey

Download or read book Amnesia written by Peter Carey. This book was released on 2015-01-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel—at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny—that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics. When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia’s prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons (let’s be honest: as they do in so many parts of her country) the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as “our sole remaining left-wing journalist,” is determined to write Gaby’s biography in order to find the answers—to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby—on the run, scared, confused, and angry—to cooperate? Bringing together the world of hackers and radicals with the “special relationship” between the United States and Australia, and Australia and the CIA, Amnesia is a novel that speaks powerfully about the often hidden past—but most urgently about the more and more hidden present.

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