The Pox Party (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Octavian: The main character. He lives among educated and talented men.
• Dr. Trefusis: Octavian's care-taker
• Bono: Slave in the household where Octavian lives.
• Mr. Sharpe: New master of Octavian's household. Takes over when the Novanglian College of Lucidity falls on hard times.
• Mr. Gitney: The head of the Novanglian College of Lucidity and master of Octavian's household.
• Cheldthorpe: Add a description of this character.
• John
• Draper
• Mr. Wheeler
• Mr. Druggett
• Mr. Turner
• Hosiah Lister

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• “"What are those papers?" asked Mr. Sharpe. "I am a fashionable man," said Bono. "It's a catalogue of fashions." Mr. Sharpe held out his hand. Bono handed over the sheaf. "There ain't nothing illegal," he said, "about being devilish handsome." ... I went to the table where the papers had been left. I lifted up the first, blank page, and surveyed those beneath, to see, as Bono quoth, what the man on the street was wearing. It was a catalogue of horrors. Page after page of Negroes in bridles, strapped to walls, advertisements for shackles, reports of hangings of slaves for theft or insubordination. ... For the first time, I saw masks of iron with metal mouth-bits for the slave to suck to enforce absolute silence. I saw razored necklaces, collars of spikes that supported the head. ... Mr. Gitney burned Bono's fashion catalogue an hour later. "Let us rid ourselves," he said, "of this noisome object." But I could not rid myself of it. It was the common property of us all.”

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• Empedocles claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebræ; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken.

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• “A man is known by his deeds.” “Oh, that’s sure,” said Bono. “Just like a house is known by its deeds. The deeds say who owns it, who sold it, and who’ll be buying a new one when it gets knocked down.”

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• He said, “I cannot fight — nor can I refrain — without imputations of savagery.” And he finished, in a voice not of defiance, but suffused with realization: “I am no one. I am not a man. I am nothing.”

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• for strangers know more of us, and can judge of us more without reproach than ever those we love.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Boston
• Massachusetts
• Cambridge
• Rome
• Channel
• Dulwich
• Canaan
• Virginia
• Africa
• Town
• Roxbury
• Road
• America
• New England
• Island
• Philadelphia
• Salem

Organizations edit see section history

• The Novanglian College of Lucidity: Add a description of this organization.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by The Kingdom on the Waves.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. M. T. Anderson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• National Book Award (2006: Young People's Literature)
• Michael L. Printz Award (Finalist, 2007, Honor Book)

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Teens › History & Historical Fiction › Historical Fiction