Havoc In Its Third Year
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Havoc In Its Third Year
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Author : Ronan Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Havoc In Its Third Year written by Ronan Bennett and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Fiction categories.
A penetrating and ambitious historical novel, Havoc, in Its Third Year is an ingenious, often deeply unnerving narrative of seventeenth-century England that speaks directly to the fanaticism and fears of today. The time is the early seventeenth century, as the quarrel between Royalists and Parliamentarians turns toward civil war, and that between Catholics and Protestants leads toward bloody religious tyranny; the place is a town in northern England, set in a grim landscape swept by crop failures, plague and rumors of war, in which rigid Puritans have taken over government and imposed their own rules. At the center of the novel is John Brigge, the Coroner and a Governor of the town, though not by any means as convinced a zealot as his fellow governors have become. Married and deeply in love with Elizabeth, who is pregnant with their first child, he has a guilty secret to hide in his affection for Dorcas, his wife's ward -- a secret which, in the world of religious prejudice and extremism toward which England is moving, can be lethal. Determined to obey the law, rather than prejudice and the need to make an example of an Irishwoman accused of murdering her own infant, Brigge draws upon himself the hostility and suspicion of the powerful men who have been his fellow governors and who now set out to destroy him in the name of morality. Brigge is both sympathetic and deeply vulnerable. He genuinely loves Elizabeth and longs for their child to be born, but he is also deeply attracted to Dorcas; he is, however guardedly, of "the old faith" and does not hesitate to hide a priest; he favors the wretched vagrants who infest the roads, seeking shelter and a bite to eat, and employs one of them on his farm. He insists on finding out the truth about the Irishwoman's baby, despite the fact that everybody has already decided on her guilt. In short, without intending to do so, John Brigge offers himself up as a victim by refusing to cooperate with the political and religious masters of the town or to subordinate his own conscience to their demand for rigid obedience and piety. Even his own clerk Adam, whom he regards as a son, turns against him in the end in a struggle that will almost cost Brigge his life and that sends him out into a cold and dangerous world, having sacrificed everything he once held dear, stripped of his power and authority, but made heroic by his commitment to love, truth and human feelings. Havoc, in Its Third Year is a novel of great power, drama and terror, at once a love story and a superb work of historical fiction. It confirms Ronan Bennett's reputation as a masterful creator.
Havoc In Its Third Year
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Author : Ronan Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Isis
Release Date : 2006
Havoc In Its Third Year written by Ronan Bennett and has been published by Isis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Coroners categories.
This penetrating historical novel from one of the United Kingdom's finest young authors is a deeply unnerving narrative of 17th-century England that speaks directly to the fanaticism and fear of today.
Havoc In Its Third Year Export Airside Only
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Author : RONAN BENNETT.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025
Havoc In Its Third Year Export Airside Only written by RONAN BENNETT. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025 with categories.
100 Must Read Prize Winning Novels
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Author : Nick Rennison
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-09-25
100 Must Read Prize Winning Novels written by Nick Rennison and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This handy pocket-size guide, part of the bestselling Must-Read series, introduces readers to the one hundred best novels that have won prestigious literary awards, and provides an extended introduction to the background and history of these literary prizes. More than a simple best-of list, the recommendations include insightful book reviews, historical and literary context, and cover a wide range of works of fiction.
The Catastrophist
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Author : Ronan Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-02-28
The Catastrophist written by Ronan Bennett and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-28 with Fiction categories.
The Catastrophist is a brilliant, highly acclaimed novel of love, passion, violence, and desire, set in the Belgian Congo in 1959. While expatriates loll about their pools in a colonial paradise soon to erupt into chaos, huge crowds are drawn to the charismatic Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba -- and his even more dangerous rivals. One man sees the cracks appearing around him and struggles to hold on to his lover, his sanity, and ultimately, his life. Gillespie, the outsider, a journalist, is in Léopoldville for the beautiful Italian, Inés. He is desperate for her love, while she is obsessed with the unfolding drama, caught up in history, ideology, hero worship. In a world slipping out of control, gripped by disgust, fear, and incomprehension, Gillespie feels that events threaten to overwhelm him -- as does his friendship with the amiable but sinister American, Stipe; his relationship with his canny native driver, Auguste; and, above all, his love for Inès. It is Inès who defines Gillespie as a catastrofista, an Italian word for somebody for whom "no problem is small. Nothing can be fixed; it is always the end," for Gillespie is deeply pessimistic and skeptical about their relationship as well as politics, while Inès believes in engagement and commitment, whatever the risks -- which, as it turns out, are greater than either of them can foresee. As colonial corruption and injustice give way to turmoil, brutality, and murder, Gillespie is finally forced to confront what is happening before his eyes. In subtle, haunting prose, Ronan Bennett captures the complex connection between the personal and the political, between cruelty and lust, between eroticism and love, between courage and fear, between detachment and involvement. The Catastrophist is a bold, courageous novel, at once a searing love story and a terrifying political thriller, in the tradition of such books as Graham Greene's The Comedians or such postcolonial classics as The Year of Living Dangerously -- an erotic Heart of Darkness for the twentieth century.
Challenging Change
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Author : Biljana Mišić Ilić
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-25
Challenging Change written by Biljana Mišić Ilić and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book, Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses, is a collection of twenty-three articles which examine change – understood in the broadest sense – as the need of the modern man to redefine, revise, deconstruct and reconstruct previous theories, histories, moralities, social relationships, forms of language and language use. In these times of great change, when the only constant seems to be change itself, the authors of these essays respond to the challenge and approach the notion of change from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics. The book opens with an introductory overview, followed by twenty-three articles divided into two sections. The authors of the articles come from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Norway.
The Contemporary British Historical Novel
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Author : M. Boccardi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-06-25
The Contemporary British Historical Novel written by M. Boccardi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition.
Havoc At Prescott High
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Author : C. M. Stunich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Havoc At Prescott High written by C. M. Stunich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with categories.
The Second Prison
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Author : Ronan Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Headline Review
Release Date : 2000
The Second Prison written by Ronan Bennett and has been published by Headline Review this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with English fiction categories.
Kane is part of a group of young Irish republican activists, whose belief in their cause at times competes with an urge to inform the police. After he is let out of jail for his alleged part in the murder of another informer, Kane goes to England to seek out and avenge himself on the final surviving member of his cell. Here he is drawn ever more deeply into the web of Tempest, the psychotic Special Branch policeman who destroyed Kane's cell in Belfast. Kane's encounter with him closes the circle of this taut, compelling novel.
Jaq A Top Boy Story
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Author : Ronan Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2024-01-25
Jaq A Top Boy Story written by Ronan Bennett and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with Fiction categories.
AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR I’m going to tell you everything. I’m gonna tell you the whole story. Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe it’s bad, like a rival top boy’s been switched off. Or maybe it’s good, like an opportunity you never thought you’d get. But opportunities mean risks, and debts, and you never want to owe anyone anything. Jaq’s worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringing in money to keep her broken family afloat. Now she’s built a good life near the top of the Summerhouse crew, with a beautiful home she shares with her girlfriend Becks and her heavily pregnant older sister Lauryn. But messages are coming in — good and bad — and Jaq has to make a choice: step back from the road and start a life she’s never even considered. Or seize her opportunities and risk everything for life-changing money. Either way, Jaq will make enemies. And those enemies aren’t going to let her go easily . . .