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"A piece of lighthearted whimsy, set in late Victorian small town England. The tale of the Denry's rise from the humblest of beginnings to a position of honor and regional renown through sheer audacity (and a lot of luck) brought to mind The Mayor..."
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"My rating of 3 stars pertains only to the first 10 chapters, which deals with an era and a part of the world that has otherwise been poorly covered and inadequately studied in most of our popular histories, which have been overly Eurocentric. Once..."
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A consideration of one of the Bible's most powerful stories from a leading Israeli writer In this fascinating reexamination of the story of Samson, David Grossman goes beyond the surface of the familiar tale to look into what the life of this...
