Micah Clarke: A Tale of the Monmouth Rebellion

MICAH CLARKE: His statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, and Ruben during the hard winter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's.
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Certainly everyone has heard of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His Sherlock Holmes stories will never be forgotten. But most people don't realize that he was also very possibly the best historical Fireship Press Bolero Ozon.

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A Tale of the Monmouth Rebellion. But most people don't realize that he was also very possibly the best historical novelist of his day.

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Between and he wrote ten historically-oriented books, covering events ranging from the Hundred Years War, to the 19th Century British occupation of Egypt. Fireship Press is proud to make these novels once again available to modern audiences. It is and Charles II has recently died.

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Two people lay claim to the throne of England-James, a Catholic and Charles' brother; and James Scott, the Duke of Monmouth, a protestant, and Charles' illegitimate son. James II is awarded the throne, but Monmouth musters an army of , mostly farmers, to challenge him. Tales Of Terror And Mystery. Round the Fire Stories. A Study in Scarlet: The Sign of the Four Collins Classics.

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Fireship Press is proud to make these novels once again available to modern audiences. It is and Charles II has recently died. James II is awarded the throne, but Monmouth musters an army of , mostly farmers, to challenge him. Micah Clarke, a commoner, is caught up in the events; and he tells the tale to his grandchildrenthe rising in Somerset, the glorious march toward Bristol and Bath, the calamitous defeat at Sedgemoor, and the Bloody Assizes of Judge George Jeffreys where hundreds of rebels were summarily hung.

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Close Report a review At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information. Micah Clarke himself becomes increasingly disillusioned with religious extremism and ultimately expresses the view that toleration is a great good. Conan Doyle had himself been brought up as a Catholic and it is likely that Micah expresses Doyle's own thoughts on the subject.

As a result of the dinner, both authors agreed to write novels to be published by Lippincott's.

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Wilde's was The Picture of Dorian Gray Conan Doyle mentioned the incident in his autobiography, Memories and Adventures. He explained that he and Wilde became friendly, but that the friendship remained a distant one at best, and that it grew more distant as Wilde's reputation became questionable. The actual friendly relationship appears to be true, but that Wilde liked Micah Clarke remains at issue.

In the recent biography of Conan Doyle, Teller of Tales , author Daniel Stashower suspects that Wilde would never have liked such a novel. But Conan Doyle pointed out in his autobiography that what Wilde liked was the characterization of Judge George Jeffreys in the novel.


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Jeffreys, the notorious bully of the law courts of his day, was shown as a handsome, brilliant man with a flaw in his character - a fallen angel type, such as figured in some of Wilde's writing. It hath ever been the custom, since his [Jeffreys'] wickedness hath come to be known to all men, to picture him as a man whose expression and features were as monstrous and as hideous as was the mind behind them. This is by no means the case. On the contrary, he was a man who, in his younger days, must have been remarkable for his extreme beauty.