Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century by Professor David Underdown
Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century
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Professor David Underdown
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Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century

Professor David Underdown

320 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Dorchester—the west-country town immortalized by Thomas Hardy as Casterbridge—was two hundred years before Hardy's time the most fervently religious town in England. The catalyst that turned a provincial backwater into a "godly community" was a gr...

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