Sarum: The Novel of England

Sarum: The Novel of England

Edward Rutherfurd

Language: English

Pages: 912

ISBN: 0449000729

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


A masterpiece that is breathtaking in its scope, SARUM is an epic novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. This rich tapesty weaves a compelling saga of five families who preserve their own particular characteristics over the centuries, and offer a fascinating glimpse into the future.

From the Paperback edition.

After Flodden

The Birds Fall Down

Glover's Mistake

1066 The Conquest

The Mistresses of Henry VIII

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Romancers began, some eight hundred years later, to construct a Christian and chivalric order of knights led by a king called Arthur. Behind the legend of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table lie several elements of historical reality, however. The world of Arthur, though it is chivalric and romanticised in a way that belongs to a later era, is nonetheless a Celtic, Christian world, with ties not only to Wales and the west country but also across the English Channel to Brittany, to which,.

Repeatedly asked him: “Are you certain you wish to be a monk?” the boy had always assured him that he did. It still seemed to Aelfwald that the boy was unhappy, but whatever his secret, it was obvious that no one was going to find out. But now, suddenly, Osric’s face was shining. As he studied the illuminated book, followed the careful penwork, the exquisite choice of reds and blues, the gold leaf applied around the elaborate capitals, it was clear that the boy was lost to the world. It was not.

Saw more of the Forest family on their periodic visits, and of their guests on these occasions, he began to understand it better. They treated him well; as tutor, he was almost like one of themselves, yet though the good manners, even of the children, made them capable at times of a delicacy towards him that would never have occurred to Porteus, he sensed that, deep down they simply did not care what he thought. There was no personal animosity towards a man of the middle classes like himself in.

Cartwright had set up a steam-driven power-loom. “So,” Lord Forest remarked, “to make cotton we hardly need weavers any more.” And the two minerals that were about to transform the world? Iron and coal, which together produced machines, driven by steam. It was all this that Ralph Shockley saw as he entered the cotton mill. But it was not the huge machines, the seemingly endless lines of thread that turned and clicked like so many soldiers on an eternal parade ground; it was not the monotonous.

Fifteen hundred cases, deaths in hundreds. A certain Doctor Middleton, visiting the city and seeing its sanitation, was appalled. He protested. Reluctantly the council commissioned a survey of the water sources. Deep drainage was recommended. But that would be expensive. The council clerk did not record the medical evidence and threw Middleton’s letter away. And so Doctor Middleton began his campaign. There was one problem for the council: the Public Health Act of 1848 – another of the many acts.

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