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Starred Review on April 1, 2015 | Fiction
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest. Yo-ho-ho and a trunk full of manuscripts!" At the tail end of the 19th century copyright law has yet to be established and publishers are making a killing by printing unauthorized editions. In this world of literary piracy the men and women employed to do the dirty work of procuring the unpublished texts are called bookaneers. When a young bookseller named Fergins is swept off to t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


