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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Can you tell from whom they may descend , can you discern the form of their common ancestor ? Will Dr Hawthorn be able to reveal their origins to them , and if he can , will they want to know ? It's wonderful what science can tell you ...
Can you tell from whom they may descend , can you discern the form of their common ancestor ? Will Dr Hawthorn be able to reveal their origins to them , and if he can , will they want to know ? It's wonderful what science can tell you ...
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The person will not tell them any more details . They tune to an all - night local radio station , and at first get nothing but music , but after ten minutes a news bulletin reports that there has been an explosion at Bednerby , between ...
The person will not tell them any more details . They tune to an all - night local radio station , and at first get nothing but music , but after ten minutes a news bulletin reports that there has been an explosion at Bednerby , between ...
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It started mildly enough , telling her that he had seen her name on the Internet news coverage of the fire , and had read with interest her ... She had told him about her father's death , and now he had to tell her about his wife's .
It started mildly enough , telling her that he had seen her name on the Internet news coverage of the fire , and had read with interest her ... She had told him about her father's death , and now he had to tell her about his wife's .
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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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