| Description |
x, 531 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A William Abrahams book." |
| Contents |
Prologue : The Princess Who Died in Old Muirkirk -- Part I. "Midnight Sun" ; "The Lass of Aviemore" ; "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" ; In Old Muirkirk ; "In Adam's Fall" ; The Pilgrim ; The Forbidden ; The Catechism of Abraham Licht ; "The Mark of Cain" ; The Mute ; The Grieving Father ; The Fate of "Christopher Schoenlicht" ; "Little Moses" ; "Gaily Through Life I Wander" ; "Nigger!" ; Secret Music ; The Desperate Man ; The English Reformer in America ; The Condemned Man ; The Guilty Lovers ; The Ingrate Son -- Part II. By Night, by Stealth ; The Society for the Reclamation & Restoration of E. Auguste Napoléon Bonaparte ; Fools and Knaves ; The Betrayal ; "I Have No Feeling of Another's Pain" ; "I Bring Not Peace but a Sword" ; The Death of "Little Moses" ; Venus Aphrodite ; A Charmed Life ; "Pathétique" ; "The Lass of Aviemore" ; "The Bull" : L'Envoi ; "Albert St. Goar, Esquire" -- Part III. A Blood-Rose! ; The Wish ; "And the Light Shineth in Darkness" ; "The Lost Village" ; "Prophet, Regent & Exchequer" ; The Enchanted Princess ; "The First Annual Universal Negro Confraternity Rally" ; In Old Muirkirk ; The Pilgrim. |
| Summary |
A novel on a family of swindlers, following several generations of men and women as they exploit human greed, love, or just plain gullibility, all in the name of the game. Occasionally, they help things along with a murder. |
| Subject |
Oates, Joyce Carol.
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Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- (DE-588)118589121
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Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Autobiografie (DE-588)4003939-0
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Swindlers and swindling. (OCoLC)fst01140414
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Epic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921643
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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Historical fiction.
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Epic fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Epic fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- My heart laid bare. New York : Dutton, ©1998 (OCoLC)606951222 |
| ISBN |
0525944427 (alk. paper) |
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9780525944423 (alk. paper) |
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