- Fiction, Plantation life, Slave trade, History
"Georges Munier is a sensitive boy growing up in the nineteenth century on the island of Mauritius. The son of a wealthy mulatto, Pierre Munier, Georges regularly sees how his father's courage is tempered by a sense of inferiority before whites and Georges vows that he will be different."
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Alexandre Dumas
- First published
- 1860
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Independently Published, Navona Editorial, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A.
- Editions
- 42
- Language
- vie, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9781520779867
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A French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. (From Wikipedia.)
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