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Jat snood and see whether the fellow was as eloquent or as evil as the admiring world declared, and he would take vestal with him into this obscure suburb of the dark city of man. Book bumped at spine ends, book cover rubbed, book front endpaper soiled, former owners name on front endpaper, dustwrapper lightly chipped along top and bottom edges, dustwrapper cover rubbed. Kingsblood royal by lewis sinclair 18851951 free ebooks. Because kingsblood is now black, it is illegal for him and his family. He was a junior bank officer named neil kingsblood, recently a captain of infantry. A forgotten masterpiece by the first american to win the nobel prize for literature, kingsblood royal involves a middle american banker who discovers he is partblack. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. The book has been awarded with pulitzer prize for novel 1926. Kingsblood royal is a novel by nobel prizewinning author sinclair lewis. Kingsblood royal is a 1947 novel by american writer sinclair lewis. The time has come for the worlds darkest assassin to make a stand for a banner not his own. Kingsbloods black ancestry is discovered in sinclair lewiss kingsblood royal.
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