| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 216 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Kevin Haworth -- Foreword for the first Swallow Press edition / Janet Lewis -- The Trial of Sören Qvist |
| Summary |
Originally published in 1947, this book has been praised by critics for its intriguing plot and for the author's powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new edition, Swallow Press executive editor and author Kevin Haworth calls attention to the contemporary feeling of the story - despite its having been written more than fifty years ago and set several hundred years in the past. As in Lewis’s best-known novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, the plot derives from Samuel March Phillips’s nineteenth-century study, Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, in which this British legal historian considered the trial of Pastor Sören Qvist to be the most striking case |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Qvist, Søren Jensen, -1626 -- Fiction
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| SUBJECT |
Qvist, Søren Jensen, -1626 fast |
| Subject |
FICTION -- General.
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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American Literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Denmark -- History -- Christian IV, 1588-1648 -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Denmark
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Fiction
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Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013016753 |
| ISBN |
9780804040549 |
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0804040540 |
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