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The Privilege of the Sword

by Ellen Kushner

480 pages · 2007

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Anticipating nothing more than a conventional life and marriage among the city's high society, young Katherine Talbert is stunned when her uncle hands her a sword, relegates her to boy's clothing, and sends her on an odyssey of self-discovery.

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