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ANYA SETON is known for her distinguished contributions to our knowledge of English and American history. In reviewing Katherine for the New York Herald Tribune, Geoffrey Bruun wrote: "Miss Seton combines the historian's respect for chronology and milieu with a novelist's flair for concrete description, drama, and dialogue." Fanny Butcher, in the Chicago Tribune, described The Win-throp Woman as "that rare literary ac-compHshment — living history." James Gray wrote in the Saturday Review that DeviJ Water "conquers space, time, and fate — and, what is even more remarkable, tedium too — in its at once tumultuous and tidy reconstruction."

In AvaJon, Anya Seton once more brings history to life.

Jacket by William Hofmann

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