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Markovits, Benjamin.
A quiet adjustment : a novel / Benjamin Markovits.
—1st American ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-393-06700-2
1. Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Baroness, 1792–1860—Fiction. 2. Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788–1824—Fiction.
3. Leigh, Augusta, 1784–1851—Fiction. 4. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3613.A7543Q54 2008
813’.6—dc22  2008001292

ISBN 978-0-393-33022-9 pbk.
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