Prisons: Book I of the Beulah Quintet
Autor Mary Lee Settleen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 1996
Preț: 151.61 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 227
Preț estimativ în valută:
29.02€ • 30.14$ • 24.10£
29.02€ • 30.14$ • 24.10£
Carte tipărită la comandă
Livrare economică 03-17 februarie 25
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781570031144
ISBN-10: 1570031142
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 140 x 204 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN-10: 1570031142
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 140 x 204 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: University of South Carolina Press
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Prisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quintet - Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom - follows the coming-of-age of Johnny Church from English youngster to dashing Oxford adolescent to idealistic Puritan in the service of Cromwell's Parliamentary Army. Throughout his evolution, Johnny seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political, and religious prisons, not realizing that with each successive grasp at freedom, he escapes one form of captivity only to be confined by another. When Cromwell, the leader Johnny has supported so staunchly, limits the freedoms for which Johnny has taken up arms, he bravely questions the commander. Shortly thereafter he finds himself held in a prison of stone and mortar where, as an example to other soldiers tempted to champion their rights, he is executed. Based on a true incident of the English Civil War, Prisons captures the promise and tragedy of the conflict that led to one of the first substantial migrations to North America and lays the foundation for the next chapter in Settle's riveting saga - O Beulah Land.