The Hiding Place

Trezza Azzopardi. The Hiding Place. New York, US: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000
Author's first novel, a Booker Prize finalist. ""The Hiding Place" is an accomplished and courageous debut... In its sheer strangeness and poetic charge, the novel sometimes recalls "Wuthering Heights"." -"The Times Literary Supplement" ~~~ Author(s): Trezza Azzopardi; Binding material: Cloth; Binding state: Original binding; Binding style: Quarter; Class: Hardback copy; Condition: Mint; Edition: First UK; Jacket condition: Mint; Language: English; Pages: 282; Publication year: 2000; Size: Octavo..

First UK, Hardback copy, Octavo, Mint

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Elizabeth George. A Place of Hiding. London, UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
Uncorrected Bound Manuscript. "A Place of Hiding" is set on the island of Guernsey where a millionaire benefactor is found murdered. A young woman is arrested for the crime and although the evidence seems tenuous it looks as if she will be charged with the murder. Enter Deborah St. James who rushes impulsively to the scene with her reluctant forensic pathologist husband. What they uncover goes deep into the psyche of the Guernsey people and has its roots in the Nazi Occupation. "With her flair for language, George reinforces her reputation as one of today's finest mystery writers." "Publishers Weekly" ~~~ Author(s): Elizabeth George; Binding material: Paper; Binding state: Original binding; Class: Manuscript; Condition: Near fine; Edition: Not applicable; Jacket condition: Not applicable; Language: English; Pages: 851; Publication year: 2003; Size: Quarto..

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[PROTESTANTISM - FRANCE]. Relation historique des horribles cruautez qu'on a exercees envers quelques Protestants en France, pour avoir assistez a une assemblee tenue dans le Desert pres de Nimes en Languedoc. On y a ajoute un abrege d'histoire apologetique ou defense des reformes de France qui sert de reponse a l'instruction pastorale sur la perseverance en la foy & la fidelite pour le souverain, de Mr. Basnage dattee du 19 Avril 1719. (No place & printer), 1719.
Very rare work describing the horrible prosecutions of the French protestants who assisted the Assembly during the <I>Desert</I> period. In the history of French Protestantism, the expression <I>Desert </I>defines the period of time between the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and the French Revolution (1789). Deprived of freedom of religion, far from the cities, hidden in isolated areas and 'deserts' (in the Cevennes, but also in Haut-Languedoc, in Poitou, Dauphine, Vivarais), the French Protestants were obligated to profess their faith in hiding. The word <I>Desert</I> also had a biblical sense for them, the 40 years the Hebrew people of Exodus wandered in the desert, a place of tribulations, temptations and despair, but also where they would hear the word of the Lord. This chapter of history touches all of France, but specifically the Languedoc region and the Cevennes, where Protestantism was largely established at the beginning of the XVIth century.The second part of this work, dated July 30, 1719 (pp. 126-44) is written by Jacques Basnage who denounces the rebellion of the Camisards. Jacques Basnage(s) de Beauval (1653-1723) was a celebrated Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, and prolific writer. He studied classical languages at Saumur and afterwards theology at Geneva. He was pastor at Rouen from 1676 till 1685, when, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, he obtained leave from the king to retire to Holland. He settled at Rotterdam as a minister till 1691, when he was chosen pastor of the Walloon church. In 1716 Dubois, who was at the Hague for the purpose of negotiating the Triple Alliance between France, Great Britain and Holland, sought the advice of Basnage, who, in spite of the fact that he had failed to receive permission to return to France for a short visit the year before, did his best to further the negotiations. The French government also turned to him for help in view of the threatening protestant rising in the Cevennes. Basnage had welcomed the revival of the Protestant church by the zeal of Antoine Court. He assured the government, however, that no danger of active resistance was to be feared. Faithful to the principles of Calvin, he denounced the rebellion of the Camisards in his <I>Instructions pastorales aux Reformes de France sur l'obeissance due aux souverains</I> (1720), which was printed by order of the Court and proclaimed in the south of France. The contribution by Basnage in this work seems to be a shortened version of <I>Instructions pastorales aux Reformes de France </I>.
Fine copy.- (Upper margin of last four pp. cut short)
Graesse I, p. 307-8 & Brunet I, cols. 691-2 (other works by Basnage)

8vo. Later half calf with title lettered in gold and black painted part with stamped shelfmark on spine, marbled boards. Woodcut headpiece and initial. 244 (i.e. 144) pp.

[SW: 18th Century; Politics; Protestantism; French; History]

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Elizabeth,George: A Place of Hiding, Random House Inc., August 2007 ISBN: 0739343769
In A Place of Hiding, bestselling author George marks new territory in the darker landscapes of human relationships. She tells a gripping, suspenseful story of betrayal and devotion, war and remembrance, love and loss--and the higher truths to which we must all ultimately answer. Abridged. 5 CDs.

NEU 160 mm x 140 mm x 25 mm

[SW: Amerikanische Belletristik / Kriminalroman, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Hörbuch, Hörbuch / Englisch, Hörbuch / Kriminalroman, Fiction / Suspense]

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