Freedom and Necessity

Freedom and Necessity
ISBN-10
0812562615
ISBN-13
9780812562613
Series
Freedom and Necessity
Category
Fiction
Pages
608
Language
English
Published
1997-12-15
Publisher
Macmillan
Authors
Emma Bull, Steven Brust

Description

Staying just one step ahead of the government factions and magical family conspiracy that want him dead, James Cobham embarks on an adventure that takes him into every corner of mid-nineteenth-century English society. Reprint.

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