The Peppered MothA portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry, a small child living in a Yorkshire mining town in 1905, to her granddaughter, listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. |
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where Dora has lived alone for many decades , so close to the house on Slotton Road where she was born . Faro has driven Dora home , and now they are sitting together over cups of instant coffee : Faro's coffee is black , and Dora's is ...
where Dora has lived alone for many decades , so close to the house on Slotton Road where she was born . Faro has driven Dora home , and now they are sitting together over cups of instant coffee : Faro's coffee is black , and Dora's is ...
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Dora hates being kissed , and always recoils from any adult bodily contact , but that's her problem , and now she's ... Faro stays for nearly an hour , during which she promises to go round to Dora's house in Swinton Road and make sure ...
Dora hates being kissed , and always recoils from any adult bodily contact , but that's her problem , and now she's ... Faro stays for nearly an hour , during which she promises to go round to Dora's house in Swinton Road and make sure ...
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Most of Auntie Dora's books , apart from the Victorian Sunday School keepsakes and Dick Francis hardbacks , are old Reader's Digest or cheap Book Club editions , and Faro boxes them up for charity . She hesitates when she finds a novel ...
Most of Auntie Dora's books , apart from the Victorian Sunday School keepsakes and Dick Francis hardbacks , are old Reader's Digest or cheap Book Club editions , and Faro boxes them up for charity . She hesitates when she finds a novel ...
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User Review - suesbooks - LibraryThingThe writing was much better than the content, but even that aspect got tiring with the numerous repetitions. The characters of the 4 generations were somewhat interesting, but I did not care much for ... Read full review
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User Review - IonaS - LibraryThingI found this book too drab and unexciting to be able to get into. I never got to the moth bit and hardly know what the book is really about though it seems to tell the tale of a little girl called ... Read full review
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| Title | The Peppered Moth |
| Author | Margaret Drabble |
| Publisher | Viking, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 6, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0670894001, 9780670894000 |
| Length | 391 pages |
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