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The Name of the Flower, Vols. 1-4 - Manga Bookshelf
Given the sheer number of nineteenth-century Brit-lit tropes that appear in The Name of the Flower -- neglected gardens, orphans struck dumb by tragedy, brooding male guardians -- one might reasonably conclude that Ken Saito was paying homage to Charlotte Brontë and Frances Hodgson Burnett with her story about a fragile young woman who falls