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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently influential upon Irish nationalism. The author was even placed under surveillance by the British Government. Tis about the son of an English Lord who falls for a dispossessed Irish Princess. The playful 'n' intellectual heroine is the novel's only endurable aspect.<br/><br/>Didn't get m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28849611">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Epistolary novel set in 19th century Ireland. Upper crust English outcast living in Ireland discovers has been Irish lord and falls hard for his daughter Glorvina. The language swoons and tends to get in the way of the plot but an interesting template of a novel. Irish history/art at in all it’s r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9883271">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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