Jack Maggs
$28.05
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2024
Summary
You’re a dead man if they find you.
Enigmatic ex-convict Jack Maggs returns from Australia to the murky streets of nineteenth-century London and embarks on a quest to find his ‘son’ Henry Phipps, who has mysteriously disappeared. Disguised as a footman, he joins the peculiar household of Phipps’s neighbour, Percy Buckle, where he meets Tobias Oates, a young novelist and amateur mesmerist searching for inspiration. Striking a dangerous deal with Oates, Maggs becomes ensnared in a dazzl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571389476 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571389473 |
| Author: | Samuel Adamson |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2024 |
| Weight: | 98g |
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Samuel Adamson
Samuel Adamson’s plays include: The Ballad of Hattie and James and Wife (Kiln Theatre), All About My Mother (from Almodóvar; Old Vic), Southwark Fair (National Theatre), Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre), and A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre). Adaptations include: Mrs Affleck, from Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, (National Theatre), A Doll’s House (Southwark Playhouse); Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters; Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi; and a musical based on George MacDonald’s The Light Princess, with Tori Amos (National Theatre).
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