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The Oath-Takers with Sea-Green Ribbons
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| Naomi Mitchison |
| ISBN 9781849210249 |
| SERIES The Naomi Mitchison Library |
| Paperback 392 pages |
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| Published 11 June 2021
UK Price £12.95
US Price $20.00 |
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'We story-tellers have a delightful time playing with history, perhaps finding something fascinating, perhaps making dreadful mistakes.'
Here, in The Oath-Takers, the 'central maypole round which the people ... must swing and fall' is Charlemagne, and one of 'the people' a young man who makes his journey to manhood in a world of feudalism and a powerful Church.
In the second short novel, Sea-Green Ribbons, the reader enters the political, religious and social tumult of the English Civil War through the story and choices of a young woman, Sarah, from a radical Leveller family in London.
These two short novels, first published in 1991, are each prefaced by an introduction to 'the history fiction game' by the author.
Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon.
Tireless in her writing, unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy.
Her novels for adults and children - based on the classical ancient world, and on the immediately contemporary - stressed at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, as well her concerns for the future.
She also wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, book reviews, political articles, and many letters.
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