The temple of optimism
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"Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Horne covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel at once a wholly convincing representation of an eighteenth-century world and an utterly modern dissection …
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"Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Horne covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel at once a wholly convincing representation of an eighteenth-century world and an utterly modern dissection of two of mankind's most powerful passions: greed and love."--BOOK JACKET.
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""Anthony Apreece covets the land of his young neighbour, Edward Horne. Horne covets Daisy, Anthony's wife. On such simple foundations, James Fleming builds a novel at once a wholly convincing …"
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