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Jess by H. Rider Haggard

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Jess
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Publisher: ManyBooks
ISBN/ASIN: 1603126058
Number of pages: 309

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An African domestic drama set in Pretoria at the time of the Boer War. Captain John Niel comes to work on the Transvaal farm of a fellow Englishman, Silas Croft, and becomes involved in a love triangle of sorts with Croft's two nieces...

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