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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Page 156
All , all , dragged to death as at the horse's tail ? What was the point of all the dead ? Faro moaned and rocked and put the pillow over her head for comfort . She was going mad . For comfort she bashed her head backwards and forwards ...
All , all , dragged to death as at the horse's tail ? What was the point of all the dead ? Faro moaned and rocked and put the pillow over her head for comfort . She was going mad . For comfort she bashed her head backwards and forwards ...
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Nobody is trying to kill them but death itself . But death is greedy , and death is persist- ent . Death is not vanquished yet . A hawk flutters over them , as , fortified , they climb the last stretch to the cave mouth .
Nobody is trying to kill them but death itself . But death is greedy , and death is persist- ent . Death is not vanquished yet . A hawk flutters over them , as , fortified , they climb the last stretch to the cave mouth .
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She had not choked to death noisily in the restaurant , or suffered a stroke by the fruit machines , or fallen down a stairwell and broken a limb . She had not thrown herself overboard , or drowned in her bath . Such things had happened ...
She had not choked to death noisily in the restaurant , or suffered a stroke by the fruit machines , or fallen down a stairwell and broken a limb . She had not thrown herself overboard , or drowned in her bath . Such things had happened ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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