Every book adaptation of an existing work has its own set of problems. Not only was Jane Smiley's 1991 novel a Pulitzer Prize-winning best seller with a large number of devoted fans, but the book A Thousand Acres was in turn self-conscious reworking of King Lear, which is a play with a larger number of more devoted fans. It might not be fair to directly compare Smiley's text with Shakespeare but the way in which this …showed first 75 words of 745 total…

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