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"This is supposed to be a children’s classic but the style of writing is sufficiently old-fashioned that it felt stuffy and pretentious to me. The characters were annoying rather than engaging. I quit after a few pages."
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steven Pressfield's The Profession. I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander's extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns...
From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.In his "most accomplished work to date" (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures...
