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About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. His task is to search their library stacks for a precious medieval codex, a treasure kept sealed away for many years and for... read more
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- Edward Wozny: Protagonist, central character, Our Hero
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The order of the English nobility is: baron, viscount, earl, marquess, duke, king.'
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Maybe it's that the world is an imperfect place, but if you spend all your time looking for something better you'll only end up somewhere even worse.
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This was somebody who spent all her time just reading and thinking about what she read. In a way it seemed like a ridiculous waste of time; and in another way it seemed so much more urgently important than what he did all day.
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It was a brilliant speech, couched in terms of the most magnificently nuanced diplomacy, but at the same time mined with slights and insults almost too devastatingly subtle to be perceived; she would only realize decades later, as she sat rocking on the porch of the old lackeys' home,
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EDWARD WOZNY STOOD squinting at the sun as crowds of people excused themselves past him in both directions.
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- Lev Grossman (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt Books
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0151010668
Page Count: 348
Publisher: Harcourt Books
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0151010668
Page Count: 348
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- Library of Congress: PS3557.R6725 C64 2004
- Dewey: 813.54
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