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Shylock's Daughter

(2000)
A novel by

 
 
Jessica, the 16-year old daughter of miserly pawnbroker Shylock, feels trapped by the endless rules of the 16th-century Venetian ghetto, until she falls for Lorenzo, a handsome and charming aristocrat. But it is a doomed passion - for Jessica is a Jew and Lorenzo a Christian.


Genre: Children's Fiction

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