Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736802838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 914

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This historical novel, first published in 1889, was Doyle's third book -- his first hardcover one, preceded only by the two paper-wrappered titles A Study in Scarlet and The Mystery of Cloomber. Micah Clarke was quite successful, running through several quick printings, though Doyle had to take it to numerous publishers before Andrew Lang at Longmans finally accepted it. Doyle brought together his knowledge of the seventeenth century and supplemented it with months of research on detail. Then, at intervals of tramping medical rounds or studying optics at the Portsmouth Eye Hospital, he wrote the book in three months. Now the power of Micah Clarke, aside from its best action scenes -- the bloodhounds on Salisbury Plain, the brush with the King's Dragoons, the fight in Wells Cathedral, the blinding battle scene at Sedgemoor -- still lies in its characterization: that other imagination, the use of homely detail, by which each character grows into life before ever a shot is fired in war. It was attempt by Conan Doyle to present the story of the Puritans in a more favorable light than generally thought of in England at the time the book was written - a historical romance about the Monmouth rebellion and 'Hanging Judge' Jeffries. told by a humble adherent of the Duke of Monmouth - the whole story of the rising in Somerset, the triumphant advance towards Bristol and Bath, and the tragic rout at Sedgemoor (1685).

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Languages : en
Pages : 421

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666859099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Excerpt from Micah Clarke: His Statement as Made to His Three Grandchildren, Joseph, Gervas and Reuben, During the Hard Winter of 1734 A preface to a novel has appeared to me in nine cases out of ten to be a needless intrusion. A true book should explain itself, and all further explana tion is superfluous. For this reason I have very seldom ventured to say anything in my own person to those who have been good enough to open my books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats
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Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Henry Rider Haggard
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Category : Adventure stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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A pilgrimage of daring adventurers to the wild interior of Mexico, where they reach a pre-Aztec City of the Heart, inhabited by a degenerate race.

Author: Henry Rider Haggard
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: S. Levett Yeats
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434469816
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Yeats "writes with perfect spontaneity, and if he selected his field with an eye to its popularity, he found it most favorable to the exercise of undeniable talent." -- The New York Times.

Author: Edna Lyall
Publisher: Copp Clark
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 508

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