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HOLLAND, CECELIA Sea Beggars
Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER as stated on copyright page. $13.95 list price on dust jacket flap. Minor shelf wear, ink name on front free endpaper. Binding tight, text clean & bright. "The Netherlands in the sixteenth century: a region of bustling cities and prosperous farms, fertile plains claimed from the sea and crisscrossed with ingenious canals, a sophisticated society in which Protestants and Catholics live peaceably side by side.. Until late in the century, the Spanish army is ordered by King Philip II to purge the Lowlands of heretics by extending the shroud of the Inquisition. Rioting breaks out in Antwerp and normal life comes to a halt as the army, attacking unarmed men and women, makes a battlefield of the city. In this, her thirteenth novel, Cecelia Holland again brilliantly re-creates a distant time and place, revealing to us a profoundly significant moment in history, the uprising that marked the beginning of the great age of national revolution.".
Offered for US$ 13.50 by: Yesterday's Muse Books - Book number: 060210