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The novel combines adventure, romance and ethical dilemmas, with a powerful description of the wilderness that shapes the characters' destinies.
The narrative time that Fowles writes about is the reign of Queen Victoria, a time of comfortable middle-class life in which religious postulates and scientific progress were believed in almost equal measure.
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Mia is a seventeen-year-old cellist who has been accepted to Julliard, the most prestigious American music school, which she is not yet sure she wants to attend.
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