Predator

Author: Faulkner
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The grandson of a banker, Lucius, secretly takes his grandfather's car with the driver Hogenbeck and the black servant Ned to a brothel. Hogenbeck finds a prostitute named Corley, while Ned, to help another black servant, secretly trades the car for a horse and uses this horse to participate in a race, winning back the car. Four days later, they return home. Hogenbeck marries Corley, and the protagonist of the story, the 11-year-old Lucius, experiences both the kindness, compassion, and mutual care of people, as well as greed, cunning, depravity, and decadence during this four-day adventure.