Read The Vizard Mask - Books Library

The Vizard Mask

Diana Norman

4.9/5 (31896 ratings)

Description:Penitence Hurd and the Plague arrived in London on the same day...Bound up in righteousness as tight as a parcel, she journeys from Puritan America to find her aunt, and steps into a city full of rogues, hell-fire and fleshly pleasures. When she discovers her aunt is running a brothel in St Giles-in-the-Fields, Penitence has no option but to point out the wickedness.The Plague releases its horror over London's stress and rookeries and, one by one, the inhabitants of Dog Yard die - many with a wild, rollicking bravery - forcing Penitence to acknowledge that courage and a paradoxical decency are to be found among the wicked as much as the saintly. Her former morality shaken, she meets Aphra Behn, playwright and spy for Charles II, who introduces her to the wicked Restoration stage, where nearly all England's first actresses are somebody's mistress, and Penitence is changed forever.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Vizard Mask. To get started finding The Vizard Mask, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 704

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 1995

ISBN: 0140243267

Description: Penitence Hurd and the Plague arrived in London on the same day...Bound up in righteousness as tight as a parcel, she journeys from Puritan America to find her aunt, and steps into a city full of rogues, hell-fire and fleshly pleasures. When she discovers her aunt is running a brothel in St Giles-in-the-Fields, Penitence has no option but to point out the wickedness.The Plague releases its horror over London's stress and rookeries and, one by one, the inhabitants of Dog Yard die - many with a wild, rollicking bravery - forcing Penitence to acknowledge that courage and a paradoxical decency are to be found among the wicked as much as the saintly. Her former morality shaken, she meets Aphra Behn, playwright and spy for Charles II, who introduces her to the wicked Restoration stage, where nearly all England's first actresses are somebody's mistress, and Penitence is changed forever.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Vizard Mask. To get started finding The Vizard Mask, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

The Vizard Mask

The Vizard Mask

More Books

A Catch of Consequence (Makepeace Hedley #1)

A Catch of Consequence (Makepeace Hedley #1)

Taking Liberties (Makepeace Hedley #2)

Taking Liberties (Makepeace Hedley #2)

The Sparks Fly Upward (Makepeace Hedley #3)

The Sparks Fly Upward (Makepeace Hedley #3)

The Pirate Queen

The Pirate Queen

The Morning Gift: A Novel of Twelfth-Century England

The Morning Gift: A Novel of Twelfth-Century England

Daughter of Lir

Daughter of Lir

Blood Royal (UK IMPORT)

Blood Royal (UK IMPORT)

Fitzempress' Law

Fitzempress' Law

Shores of Darkness

Shores of Darkness