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    Pope and Her Lady: A Novella
    Pope and Her Lady: A Novella
    Pope and Her Lady: A Novella
    Ebook72 pages56 minutes

    Pope and Her Lady: A Novella

    By Leon Rooke

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateSep 3, 2018
    ISBN9781550961898
    Pope and Her Lady: A Novella
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    Leon Rooke

    Leon Rooke is the author of seven novels, including Shakespeare's Dog which won the 1993 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Other major awards he has received include The W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Canada-Australia Literary Prize, and the CBC Fiction Prize. He has published over 300 short stories, as well as poetry and plays, and is the founder of The Eden Mills Literary Festival.

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