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Despite‚Aîor perhaps because of‚Aîthese flaws, the book has earned a reputation as a cultural curiosity, a guilty pleasure, and an imaginative piece of outsider art. Follow the escapades of Dr. Victor Juno, a Naturalist who employs animal magnetism to heal the sick, and his beloved Lucinda. As the leader of a covert paramilitary group, Juno embarks on a revolutionary crusade against a morally bankrupt society and a nefarious triumvirate known as The Bloody Conspirators. 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