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Prisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quintet - Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom - follows the coming-of-age of Johnny Church from English youngster to dashing Oxford adolescent to idealistic Puritan in the service of Cromwell's Parliamentary Army.
Throughout his evolution, Johnny seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political, and religious prisons, not realizing that with each successive grasp at freedom, he escapes one form of captivity only to be confined by another.
When Cromwell, the leader Johnny has supported so staunchly, limits the freedoms for which Johnny has taken up arms, he bravely questions the commander. Shortly thereafter he finds himself held in a prison of stone and mortar where, as an example to other soldiers tempted to champion their rights, he is executed.
Based on a true incident of the English Civil War, Prisons captures the promise and tragedy of the conflict that led to one of the first substantial migrations to North America and lays the foundation for the next chapter in Settle's riveting saga - O Beulah Land.
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Prisons: Book I of the Beulah Quintet
2021, University of South Carolina Press
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Prisons
1996, University of South Carolina Press
in English
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1570031142 9781570031144
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Prisons: A Novel (The Beulah Quintet)
October 1987, Scribner
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in English
- New Ed edition
0684188457 9780684188454
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Prisons: book one of the Beulah quintet
1981, Ballantine Books
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books ed.
0345293126 9780345293121
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