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The Last Runaway
The Last Runaway
Author: Tracy Chevalier
Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850 -- only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and u...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780007350353
ISBN-10: 000735035X
Publication Date: 3/13/2014
Pages: 400
Rating:
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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4.2 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Harpercollins
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 4
Some authors feel like an old comfortable shoe when you begin to read their work. So it is for this author for me. I totally enjoyed Honor Bright. The author makes this sensitive, principled young woman come alive it a touching and poignant way. Her quiet determination is wonderfully heart warming and one cannot help but cheer when she chooses to help runaway slaves in spite of the danger to herself and her family by marriage. I liked this tale very much.
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