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The Last Bookaneer by Pearl, Matthew

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Condition
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Seller Notes
“Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ...
Binding
Audio CD
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9781611764260
Publication Year
2015
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Book Title
Last Bookaneer
Author
Matthew Pearl
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Thrillers / General, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical

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The bestselling author of The Dante Club takes us deep into a shadowy era in publishing ruled by a forgotten class of criminals A golden age of publishing on the verge of collapse. For a hundred years, loose copyright laws and a hungry reading public created a unique opportunity: Books could be published without an author's permission with extraordinary ease. Authors gained fame but suffered financially--Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, to name a few--but publishers reaped enormous profits while readers got their books on the cheap. The literary pirates who stalked the harbors, coffeehouses, and printer shops for the latest manuscript to steal were known as bookaneers. Yet on the eve of the twentieth century, a new international treaty is signed to protect authors and grind this literary underground to a sharp halt. The bookaneers, of course, would become extinct. In The Last Bookaneer , Matthew Pearl gives us a historical novel set inside the lost world of these doomed outlaws and the incredible heist that brought their era to a close. On the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labors over a new novel. The thought of one last book from the great author fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, and soon two adversaries--the gallant Pen Davenport and the monstrous Belial--set out for the south Pacific island. Pen Davenport--a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past--is reluctantly accompanied by Fergins, the narrator of our story, who has lived a quiet life of bookselling before being whisked across the world on his friend's final caper. Fergins soon discovers the supreme thrill of aiding Davenport in his quest: to steal Stevenson's manuscript and make a fortune before the new treaty ends the bookaneers' trade forever. Yet Samoa holds many secrets of its own, and the duo's bookish concerns clash with the island's violent destiny. A colonial war is afoot between the British, American, and German powers; even as Stevenson himself quietly supports native revolutionaries from high in his mountain compound. Soon Pen and Fergins are embroiled in a conflict larger, perhaps, than literature itself. Illuminating the heroics of the bookaneers even while conjuring Stevenson himself to breathtaking life, Pearl's The Last Bookaneer is a pageturning journey to the dark heart of a forgotten literary era.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1611764262
ISBN-13
9781611764260
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208726392

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Bookaneer
Author
Matthew Pearl
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / General, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective / General, Historical
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Fiction

Dimensions

Item Length
5.9in.
Item Height
1.1in.
Item Width
5.1in.
Item Weight
9.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Age Range
18
Number of Volumes
11 Vols.
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Pages
1 Pages

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