Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
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Fiction, History, Land tenure, Literature
London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly.
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Classical in form, bleak, prestige and earnest.
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On Open Library, 3 have read it and 30 want to.
“In the rooms where William Thornhill grew up, in the last decades of the eighteenth century, no one could move an elbow without hitting the wall or the table or a sister or a brother.”
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