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"a man gets kidnapped by a native tribe because he can read and they want to be read to. when the search party comes looking for him he is drugged and hidden."
May 25, 2026
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Novel About a Captive Forced to Read Dickens in the Jungle
The confirmed answer is A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, whose final section strands Tony Last with a captor who forces him to read Dickens.
Confirmed match: A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
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Study Guide - Indian Captive by Lois Lenski
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2021
1 edition
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