This 1841 novel describes life at a nineteenth-century English boarding school. The hero, Hugh Proctor, comes to the school from a relatively privileged background and suffers there a disfiguring accident that will prove to be the defining challenge of his life.
About the author
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was an English novelist and sociologist, an innovator who broadened social analysis to include such nontraditional concerns as the roles of women, children, and minorities. She is best known for her
Illustrations of Political Economy series and the novel
Deerbrook (1839).
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9781411446878 ● File size 0.2 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Barnes & Noble ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5863347 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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