- Robbers and outlaws, Fiction, Identity, History
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
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Classical in form, effortless, cool and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Eleanor Updale
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press, Thorndike Press, Heinemann
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439978408
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