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The Known World (1st Edition) by Edward P. Jones Hardcover, 388 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 0-06-055754-0 / 0060557540 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-055754-6 / 9780060557546 A 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner. Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his o |