Cambridge

Caryl Phillips

earliest edition we have, 1992 Faber & Faber Ltd, 2001 paperback 256 pages

Dramatic and challenging novel about freedom and prejudice by one of the most important authors of his generationCambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cambridge, a young woman sent from England to visit her father's West Indian plantation, and Cambridge, a plantation slave, educated and C...

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Cambridge ebook · 2009 · Random House Group Limited · 9781409079859
Cambridge paperback · 2001 · Faber & Faber Ltd · 256 pages · 9780571204076
Cambridge edition · 1993 · Vintage Books · 183 pages
Cambridge edition · 1993 · Tandem Library · 9781417718627
Cambridge edition · 1992 · Knopf · 183 pages
Cambridge paperback · 1992 · Knopf · 192 pages · 9780330322461

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