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Adam Runaway / Peter Prince.
Van Pelt Library PR6066.R564 A64 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prince, Peter, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young men--Fiction.
- Young men.
- British.
- History.
- Portugal.
- Portugal--History--John V, 1706-1750--Fiction.
- British--Portugal--Fiction.
- Lisbon (Portugal)--Fiction.
- Lisbon (Portugal).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 438 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2005]
- Summary:
- It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father's sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and Adam's rise to the top is thwarted by Barolomeu Gomes, his uncle's treacherous head clerk. ADAM RUNAWAY is a fast moving story, by turns romantic, comical and tragic. All set against a background that combines the twin spectacles of one of the richest, most cosmopolitan cities in the world--and the grim, archaic shadow of the portuguese Inquisition.
- Notes:
- "A Touchstone book."
- ISBN:
- 0743271017
- OCLC:
- 57694709
- Publisher Number:
- 9780743271011
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