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Title: Implausible and chauvinistic
Review: Others have mentioned the improbability of the plotline, and I found a bunch of historical anachronisms. But in a novel where the American is all "equality" as well as "love and honor" isn't it ironic that the hero comes from a slave-owning culture, and yet despises all the Europeans for their snobbery and ethnic prejudice? A different kind of novel could have resulted had this, and other paradoxes, been engaged at any level at all.
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