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John Jakes
Born
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
March 31, 1932
Died
March 11, 2023
Website
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North and South (North and South, #1)
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1982
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41 editions
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The Bastard (Kent Family Chronicles, #1)
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published
1974
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58 editions
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Love and War (North and South, #2)
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published
1984
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Heaven and Hell (North and South, #3)
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published
1987
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63 editions
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The Rebels (Kent Family Chronicles, #2)
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published
1975
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62 editions
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The Warriors (Kent Family Chronicles, #6)
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published
1977
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42 editions
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The Seekers (Kent Family Chronicles, #3)
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published
1975
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50 editions
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The Furies (Kent Family Chronicles, #4)
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published
1976
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71 editions
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The Titans (Kent Family Chronicles, #5)
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published
1976
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46 editions
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The Americans (Kent Family Chronicles, #8)
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published
1979
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41 editions
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“I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.”
― Homeland
― Homeland
“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
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“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. ”
― Heaven and Hell
― Heaven and Hell
Polls
2nd Quarter Long Read Classic-April-June 2015
1936, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1037 pages
1605, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 982 pages
1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
1812, The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, 880 pages
1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 796 pages
1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, 731 pages
1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages
1962, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 640 pages
1941, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West, 1181 pages
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