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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
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- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Sharon Kay Penman
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 720
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Griffin, St. Martin's Griffin
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780030627736
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First sentence
“HE was ten years old and an alien in an unfriendly land, made an unwilling exile by his mother's marriage to a Marcher border lord.”
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