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The Witches of Karres Study Guide

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by James H. Schmitz
About 3 pages (892 words)
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Stories of picaresque adventure have been popular since the ancient days when the Odyssey (c.1050-850 B.C.) of Homer was sung. Recent favorites include Rudyard Kipling's Kim, set in India in the days of the British Raj, and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1884), set in the antebellum South. The modern-day versions of these tall-tale epic journeys are often found in the realm of science fiction. Like the Great Trunk Road of British India, or the.....

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The Witches of Karres from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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