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Lady Good-for-Nothing
Lady GoodforNothing
Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Unknown
SHE HAD DISHONORED THE SABBATH
They had stripped her to the waist, and then for decency -- their decency! -- had thrown a jacket of coarse sacking over her, lacing it loosely in front with pack-thread. But, because their work required it, this garment had been gathered up into a rope at the neck, whence it dangled in ...  more » Faith never yet has burnt man or woman at the stake. Religion has burnt its tens of thousands.

This is the astonishing love story of Ruth and Oliver. From America of the mid-eighteenth century; to earthquake-ravaged Lisbon, Portugal; to England, their tormented romance flamed and burned. . . . Would his Lady Good-for-Nothing be vindicated. . . . Or suffer a shameful punishment? A lyrical and unusual novel of historical passion, originally published under the pseudonym Q by the editor of The Oxford Book of Verse, the famous poet Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
ISBN-13: 9781606648674
ISBN-10: 1606648675
Publication Date: 6/1/2008
Pages: 260
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Publisher: Aegypan
Book Type: Hardcover
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