The Blood Of The Martyrs

Released on by Naomi Mitchison
preview-18

  • The Blood Of The Martyrs Book Detail

  • Author : Naomi Mitchison
  • Release Date : 2010-07-01
  • Publisher : Canongate Books
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 433
  • ISBN 13 : 1847674933
  • File Size : 26,26 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

The Blood Of The Martyrs by Naomi Mitchison PDF Summary

Book Description: Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of one cell of the early church. With a cast of slaves, ordinary Roman people, exiles and entertainers, it is thorough in its historical interpretation and in its determination to make the past accessible and readable. Written in 1938-9, the novel contains many symbolic parallels to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s and the desperate plight of persecuted minorities such as the Jews and the left-wing activists with whom Naomi Mitchison personally campaigned at the time. With the invasion of Britain a real possibility, she felt compelled to write a testament to the power of human solidarity which, even faced with death, can overcome the worst that human evil can achieve. The Blood of the Martyrs is the least autobiographical of Mitchison’s major works of fiction, yet, with its implicit credo, is her most passionately self-revealing. ‘ . . . when a novelist is historically faithful in these treacherous waters of the human psyche, the results are tremendous. As a twentieth-century woman, it no doubt hurt Naomi Mitchison a good deal to describe the savagery of the early Christian persecution in The Blood of the Martyrs . . . But it is the pain that gives the history its lifeblood. The imagination that is a novelist’s fuel must be harnessed to serve history as history was, not as anyone wishes it had been.’ Joanna Trollope

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Blood Of The Martyrs books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Blood Of The Martyrs

The Blood Of The Martyrs

File Size : 54,54 MB
Total View : 4697 Views
DOWNLOAD

Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Nero’s reign of terror, The Blood of the Martyrs is a disciplined historical novel tracing the destruction of o

The Blood of the Martyrs

The Blood of the Martyrs

File Size : 18,18 MB
Total View : 4794 Views
DOWNLOAD

The man who expected to be shot lay with his eyes open, staring at the upper left-hand corner of his cell. He was fairly well over his last beating, and they mi

TRAIL OF BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS

TRAIL OF BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS

File Size : 92,92 MB
Total View : 878 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book puts two groups on trail: (1) pre-First Amendment Christian Revisionists for murder and conspiracy to commit murder; (2) post-First Amendment Christia

By Their Blood

By Their Blood

File Size : 37,37 MB
Total View : 5794 Views
DOWNLOAD

The moving true stories of modern martyrs all over the world are brought to life in this newly revised edition.