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Url Phantomhive
Url Phantomhive rated it 7 years ago
I'm always interested in books about books, and this book tells about the final days of the bookaneers, people who stole manuscripts from writers for publishers, which is coming to an end with the introduction of copyrights. The main characters try one final time to get their hands on the latest boo...
Sheila's Reads
Sheila's Reads rated it 7 years ago
Copyright laws are to go into effect on both sides of the Atlantic. Bookaneers are book pirates who steal from authors, booksellers, current owners and give to buyers who have hired them. It is learned that Robert Louis Stevenson is dying and working on his seemingly last book and the most elite b...
Tami
Tami rated it 8 years ago
An interesting short novella from Edgar Allen Poe. While reading it I realized I must have read it before, as I started to guess the solution and that is truly impossible without knowing it. What I mean by this is, that the solution is precluded by hints and enough different facts to give the impr...
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it 10 years ago
A bookaneer is someone who steals the works of authors to make them readily available to the reading public, thereby insuring that they are not rationed by cost or availability or by the haphazard selections made by publishers, booksellers and authors. Some are motivated by profit and some by the wr...
aceflor
aceflor rated it 10 years ago
Review of an ARC CopySo.. First I have to say that I absolutely adored "The Dante Club"and really liked "The Poe Shadow". "The Last Bookaneer" though did not live up to my expectations. It is well written, Matthew Pearl is a good writer, but sadly I felt that he did not pull all he could out of the ...
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