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Old St. Paul's

William Harrison Ainsworth

3.7/5 ( ratings)

April 1665 - when the cry of 'Bring out your dead' sent a chill through every household ...

With a telling eye for detail Harrison Ainsworth unrolls his sweeping, colourful panorama of a Restoration London beset by twin disasters ... the Great Plague and the Fire of London ...

The profligate Earl of Rochester, the frenzied Salvationist Solomon Eagle, the abominable undertaker Chowles and Judith Malmayns, the venal plague nurse, companions in iniquity, add a nightmare dimension to the adventures of dauntless Leonard Holt and the lovely Amabel in the stricken ...

Dominating this spectacular story of love, greed, betrayal, abduction, conspiracy and revenge is the towering structure of Old St. Paul's ... cathedral ... public haunt of gallants and rogues ... pest house ... and blazing inferno.

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Language: English

Pages: 510

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Pan Publishing

Release: May 07, 1968

ISBN: 0330021559

ISBN 13: 9780330021555

Old St. Paul's

William Harrison Ainsworth

3.7/5 ( ratings)

April 1665 - when the cry of 'Bring out your dead' sent a chill through every household ...

With a telling eye for detail Harrison Ainsworth unrolls his sweeping, colourful panorama of a Restoration London beset by twin disasters ... the Great Plague and the Fire of London ...

The profligate Earl of Rochester, the frenzied Salvationist Solomon Eagle, the abominable undertaker Chowles and Judith Malmayns, the venal plague nurse, companions in iniquity, add a nightmare dimension to the adventures of dauntless Leonard Holt and the lovely Amabel in the stricken ...

Dominating this spectacular story of love, greed, betrayal, abduction, conspiracy and revenge is the towering structure of Old St. Paul's ... cathedral ... public haunt of gallants and rogues ... pest house ... and blazing inferno.

.

Language: English

Pages: 510

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Pan Publishing

Release: May 07, 1968

ISBN: 0330021559

ISBN 13: 9780330021555

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