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1649: A Novel of a Year
1649, a Novel of a Year
576 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1971
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Jack Lindsay
173 books8 followersJack Lindsay was an Australian-born writer, who from 1926 lived in the United Kingdom.
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November 19, 2017
I am currently reading every novel set in the English Civil War/War of the Three Kingdoms that I can find. Francis Spufford mentioned this and I am still baffled how I never came across it. I have the right political background.
This is a social realist, Marxist take on the war from the point of view of six people (four men, two women). It starts with the execution of Charles Stuart, and works through month by month to the end of the year. By the end of the year each has changed, some away from radicalism one further in. The whole exercise is a little like Coronation Street c. 1649. It is very effective.
This is a social realist, Marxist take on the war from the point of view of six people (four men, two women). It starts with the execution of Charles Stuart, and works through month by month to the end of the year. By the end of the year each has changed, some away from radicalism one further in. The whole exercise is a little like Coronation Street c. 1649. It is very effective.
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