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Micah Clarke: His Statement As Made To His Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734.

Micah Clarke: His Statement As Made To His Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734.

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Micah Clarke: His Statement As Made To His Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734.

by Doyle, A. Conan

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Micah Clarke. RARE. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Harper & Brothers First American Edition, Copyright 1894. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. A square, solid copy. Bright pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial cloth, engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Gilted front cover and spine ornamentation are still in nice shape. Former owner signature on front free endpaper dates our copy of this book to 1894. Set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 in England, Micah Clarke is a a bildungsroman (coming of age story) whose protagonist, Micah Clarke, begins as a boy seeking adventure in a rather romantic and naive way, falls under the influence of an older and vastly experienced, world-weary soldier of fortune. A story of disillusionment with religious extremism. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective fiction series. 5 X 7 ½ 471 pages.

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Micah Clarke . RARE. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Harper & Brothers First American Edition, Copyright 1894. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. A square, solid copy. Bright pages. Octavo, original publisher's pictorial cloth, engraved frontispiece. In good condition. Gilted front cover and spine ornamentation are still in nice shape. Former owner signature on front free endpaper dates our copy of this book to 1894. Set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 in England, Micah Clarke is a a bildungsroman (coming of age story) whose protagonist, Micah Clarke, begins as a boy seeking adventure in a rather romantic and naive way, falls under the influence of an older and vastly experienced, world-weary soldier of fortune. A story of disillusionment with religious extremism. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective fiction series. 5 X 7 ½ 471 pages.

Synopsis

Micah Clarke by Arthur Conan Doyle is an historical adventure novel set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 in England. The book follows the exploits of Conan Doyle's fictional character Micah Clarke. It is a bildungsroman whose protagonist begins as a boy seeking adventure in a rather romantic and naive way, falls under the influence of an older and vastly experienced, world-weary soldier of fortune, and becomes a grown up after numerous experiences, some of them very harrowing.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
081DoyleMicah
Title
Micah Clarke: His Statement As Made To His Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734.
Author
Doyle, A. Conan
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No DJ Included
Quantity Available
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Edition
First American Edition
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1894
Pages
471
Size
5 X 7 1/2
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Micah Clarke, Monmouth Rebellion, Bildungroman, Coming of age, Military, Disillusionment, Extremism, Sherlock Holmes
Bookseller catalogs
Anglophilia; Religion; Victorian Literature; Social Sciences; Family; Law; Government; Weaponry; Detective Fiction; Philosophy; Harper & Brothers; Insurrection; 19th Century Literature; 20th Century Literature;

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