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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... father's expense ) , Joe's father , pointing at Ivan , insists that he has no intention of supporting Joe while he goes to university . Joe can go into the family business , like his brother Bennett . Barron's Glass needs a travelling ...
... father's expense ) , Joe's father , pointing at Ivan , insists that he has no intention of supporting Joe while he goes to university . Joe can go into the family business , like his brother Bennett . Barron's Glass needs a travelling ...
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... father's death . She galloped through the dreadful story . Nine months dead , her father was , and he had died of the drink . Cirrhosis of the liver . He had been a desperate , wild , mad , drinking man . A useless man , a squalid ...
... father's death . She galloped through the dreadful story . Nine months dead , her father was , and he had died of the drink . Cirrhosis of the liver . He had been a desperate , wild , mad , drinking man . A useless man , a squalid ...
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Margaret Drabble. tries not to see her father , Nick Gaulden , but he is there , unbidden . He is everywhere . He will not lie quietly . Faro had loved her father . Her father had been much loved , and he himself had loved many . He had ...
Margaret Drabble. tries not to see her father , Nick Gaulden , but he is there , unbidden . He is everywhere . He will not lie quietly . Faro had loved her father . Her father had been much loved , and he himself had loved many . He had ...
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