The Giant, O'Brien

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Fourth Estate, 1998 - Fiction - 210 pages
A new novel based on the true story of the 18th century Irish giant, Charles O'Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon Charles Hunter. His bones still hang in the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

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Contents

Section 1
110
Section 2
150
Section 3
210
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About the author (1998)

Hilary Mantel was born in Derbyshire. She was educated at a convent and later studied law. After ten years abroad in Africa and the Middle East, she returned to Britain in 1985 to make a career as a writer. She is working on her ninth novel.

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