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The Known World

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

by Edward P. Jones

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About The Known World

The Known World (2003) won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award — a novel about a Black slaveholder in antebellum Virginia whose decision to own slaves creates moral reverberations across his family and community. The most formally Faulknerian of recent American novels and one of the most original and challenging treatments of American slavery in fiction.

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