"Dear Master": Letters of a Slave FamilyRandall M. Miller Cornell University Press, 1978 - 281 من الصفحات For those interested in Stevenson or the writers he influenced--Borges and Greene, among others. This collection of more than 200 letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance in 1978--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Skipworth family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. With a new preface to this edition by editor Miller (history, Saint Joseph's U., Philadelphia). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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