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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).
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781975983093 |
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Publisher: | CreateSpace Publishing |
Publication date: | 08/31/2017 |
Pages: | 278 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d) |
About the Author
Date of Birth:
May 22, 1859Date of Death:
July 7, 1930Place of Birth:
Edinburgh, ScotlandPlace of Death:
Crowborough, Sussex, EnglandEducation:
Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885Table of Contents
I. | Of Cornet Joseph Clarke of the Ironsides | 9 |
II. | Of my Going to School and of my Coming Thence | 17 |
III. | Of Two Friends of my Youth | 28 |
IV. | Of the Strange Fish that we Caught at Spithead | 32 |
V. | Of the Man with the Drooping Lids | 39 |
VI. | Of the Letter that Came from the Lowlands | 45 |
VII. | Of the Horseman that Rode from the West | 57 |
VIII. | Of our Start for the Wars | 63 |
IX. | Of a Passage of Arms at the Blue Boar | 74 |
X. | Of our Perilous Adventure on the Plain | 80 |
XI. | Of the Lonely Man and the Gold Chest | 93 |
XII. | Of Certain Passages upon the Moor | 103 |
XIII. | Of Sir Gervas Jerome, Knight Banneret of the County of Surrey | 112 |
XIV. | Of the Stiff-legged Parson and his Flock | 123 |
XV. | Of our Brush with the King's Dragoons | 131 |
XVI. | Of our Coming to Taunton | 142 |
XVII. | Of the Gathering in the Market-Square | 149 |
XVIII. | Of Master Stephen Timewell, Mayor of Taunton | 159 |
XIX. | Of a Brawl in the Night | 178 |
XX. | Of the Muster of the Men of the West | 189 |
XXI. | Of my Hand-gripes with the Bradenburger | 198 |
XXII. | Of the News from Havant | 213 |
XXIII. | Of the Snare on the Western Road | 221 |
XXIV. | Of the Welcome that Met me at Badminton | 237 |
XXV. | Of Strange Doings in the Boteler Dungeon | 252 |
XXVI. | Of the Strife in the Council | 266 |
XXVII. | Of the Affair near Keynsham Bridge | 272 |
XXVIII. | Of the Fight in Wells Cathedral | 281 |
XXIX. | Of the Great Cry from the Lonely House | 291 |
XXX. | Of the Swordsman with the Brown Jacket | 298 |
XXXI. | Of the Maid of the Marsh and the Bubble which Rose from the Bog | 310 |
XXXII. | Of the Onfall at Sedgemoor | 324 |
XXXIII. | Of my Perilous Adventure at the Mill | 349 |
XXXIV. | Of the Coming of Solomon Sprent | 361 |
XXXV. | Of the Devil in Wig and Gown | 371 |
XXXVI. | Of the End of it All | 394 |
Appendix | 399 |