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The Peaceable Kingdom - Hartog
The Peaceable Kingdom by Hartog, Jan de. This item was published by Atheneum and copyrighted 1971. It is a Book Club Edition. It is a thick hardback of 783 pages, weighing 1lb15oz, and the condition is G+G-.
The binding is slightly loosened and there is a slight lean to the spine. There is an owner inscription in ink on the ffep, but no other markings of nay kind. The dustjacket shows plenty of shelfwear, is chipped along the edges and has five open or closed tears of a quarter inch.
From the dustjacket flap:
Like most American stories, the story of the Quakers starts in Europe: in Lanashire, England, one summer afternoon of 1652, when two horsemen blundered into the quicksands of Morecambe Bay.” One of those horsemen was George Fox, and the manor from which he was observed was Swarthmoor Hall, presided over by Margaret Fell. From the passioanate meeting of these two grew the Religious Society of Friends, and out of the Quaker history Jan de Hartog has created this epic novel, a work of the imagination bursting with the vitality of greatness – in character, in faith and in story.
From its gripping start in the England of Cromwell to its immensely moving climax in the American Wilderness, The Peaceable Kingdom tells the story of the Children of the Light and their Holy Experiment. Here they are – many based on people who lived – generation after generation, founding a new faith, seeking freedom in the New World, achieving a unique peace with the Indians, subduing the wilderness, struggling with the agonizing issue of slavery, experiencing triumphs of faith and deeds and defeats by nature and human frailty.
“I was moved,” says de Hartog, “to erect a monument to these generations… who transmitted the love of God through their lives rather than their words.” Perhaps the greatest achievement of this passionate novel lies in its revelation of the miracle of compassion, which is at the heart of the Quaker movement.
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The binding is slightly loosened and there is a slight lean to the spine. There is an owner inscription in ink on the ffep, but no other markings of nay kind. The dustjacket shows plenty of shelfwear, is chipped along the edges and has five open or closed tears of a quarter inch.
From the dustjacket flap:
Like most American stories, the story of the Quakers starts in Europe: in Lanashire, England, one summer afternoon of 1652, when two horsemen blundered into the quicksands of Morecambe Bay.” One of those horsemen was George Fox, and the manor from which he was observed was Swarthmoor Hall, presided over by Margaret Fell. From the passioanate meeting of these two grew the Religious Society of Friends, and out of the Quaker history Jan de Hartog has created this epic novel, a work of the imagination bursting with the vitality of greatness – in character, in faith and in story.
From its gripping start in the England of Cromwell to its immensely moving climax in the American Wilderness, The Peaceable Kingdom tells the story of the Children of the Light and their Holy Experiment. Here they are – many based on people who lived – generation after generation, founding a new faith, seeking freedom in the New World, achieving a unique peace with the Indians, subduing the wilderness, struggling with the agonizing issue of slavery, experiencing triumphs of faith and deeds and defeats by nature and human frailty.
“I was moved,” says de Hartog, “to erect a monument to these generations… who transmitted the love of God through their lives rather than their words.” Perhaps the greatest achievement of this passionate novel lies in its revelation of the miracle of compassion, which is at the heart of the Quaker movement.
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