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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... happy family ! I know a lot of you may have groaned when people went on about happy families - I used to groan myself , believe you me , and family duty was never a strong suit with me - but this business 61.
... happy family ! I know a lot of you may have groaned when people went on about happy families - I used to groan myself , believe you me , and family duty was never a strong suit with me - but this business 61.
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... happy . Maybe not happy as happikins , that was a silly thing to say , but happy enough . She's sort of - self - sufficient . She's self - contained . She doesn't need any of us . She can live without us . Don't you think ? I think ...
... happy . Maybe not happy as happikins , that was a silly thing to say , but happy enough . She's sort of - self - sufficient . She's self - contained . She doesn't need any of us . She can live without us . Don't you think ? I think ...
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... happy ending , imagining Faro Gaul- den's happy memory of a happy Christmas . It wasn't like that . For moments , it seems to me that it might have been like that . If I try very hard , I can induce in myself a brief , unconvincing ...
... happy ending , imagining Faro Gaul- den's happy memory of a happy Christmas . It wasn't like that . For moments , it seems to me that it might have been like that . If I try very hard , I can induce in myself a brief , unconvincing ...
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