The Sun is My Undoing
by Marguerite Steen
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An engaging family saga set in the 18th century. Some very sickening episodes involving the British slave trade and many offensive racial stereotypes. The settings are England, Africa, Jamaica, Cuba, and Spain. In spite of my dislike for many of the characters and attitudes, I found myself unable to stop reading its 1100+ pages!
I read this in 1942 as a young teenager, and again in 2009. Of course I saw the book differently the second time. A look at the English slave trade. In my memory I had given it 5 stars.
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Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers - Part II - 1940 - 1979
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- Canonical title*
- Il sole nero
- Original title
- The Sun Is My Undoing
- Original publication date
- 1941
- First words
- The manner of Hercules Flood's death made a scandal which eclipsed every other scandal that, during the long, candlelit evenings of Bristol winter, disturbed drawing-rooms and kept business lively in taverns.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 823.912 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1901-1945
- LCC
- PZ3 .S8157 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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- 94
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- 342,863
- Reviews
- 2
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- (4.00)
- Languages
- 6 — English, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 20
