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Book Reviews of The Lawless (Kent Family Chronicles, Bk 7)

The Lawless (Kent Family Chronicles, Bk 7)
The Lawless - Kent Family Chronicles, Bk 7
Author: John Jakes
ISBN-13: 9780451214522
ISBN-10: 0451214528
Publication Date: 3/1/2005
Pages: 683
Rating:
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4 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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great series if you like historical fiction!
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Volume VII of the Kent Family Chronicles. If you love historical fiction, you have to read this series.
Becky43 avatar reviewed The Lawless (Kent Family Chronicles, Bk 7) on + 13 more book reviews
FYI this is Volume VII (7) of the series.
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The 7th volume of The Kent Family Chronicles takes the reader through the post-Civil War era into the period of fighting for workers' rights aginst the unscrupulous business barons. Great historical novel.
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Hard to put down! Good read!
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This is book seven in the Kent Family Chronicles
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Reviewer: Beverley Strong (Australia) -

Matthew Kent, son of Jephtha Kent, is in Paris, happily pursuing the life of one of the new "bohemian" artists and befriending many of the new and promising artists of the time-Cezanne, Manet etc. and rather daringly having a live-in mistress.He becomes involved with a sadistic and violent agent of Bismarck (chancellor of Germany)and is forced to flee the country. Dolly, his mistress, becomes pregnant and insists that they marry to avoid the stigma of bastardy for their child.Their marriage doesn't survive so Dolly takes their son Thomas with her to India where she is employed as an English teacher.Matt returns to America briefly but decides that his future lies in Europe. Gideon makes an implacable enemy of millionaire businessman, Thomas Courtleigh who does all he can to destroy Gideon and his business by attacking his family, causing the death of his wife Margaret. On the same night, Gideon's daughter Eleanor is pack raped , causing irreparable damage to her self esteem. Eleanor leaves home at an early age, joining an acting troupe,and therebye relinquishing respectability as it was known in that era.After Margarets death Gideon is able to marry his longtime mistress, Julia Kent, widow of his cousin Louis and takes on the responsibility of her son Carter.