An Instance of the Fingerpost: Explore the murky world of 17th-century Oxford in this iconic historical thriller

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Jill wrote: "I was willing to go along with the suggestion that Nancy was the messiah, and that there was one in each generation, but the fact that she was resurrected without much opposition and then sent abroad did seem rather a wet squib ending. ." Historical fiction tends to gather around the Tudors and Victorians but often skirts the Stuarts. They had an awful lot of messy Civil Wars and their personalities were not what one would call attractive. Unlike writers attempting valiantly to fashion together something new from the fall of Anne Boleyn or similar, An Instance of the Fingerpost offers fresh material even for the hardened historical fiction fiend such as myself. However, even without the refreshing setting and context, Pears' novel marks itself as head and shoulders above the average. has steeped himself in the reading and the attitudes of the period, so that his characters, in their lives and confessions, embody its rich contradictions, its entwining of superstition with the spirit of new learning, of religion with Born in 1955, Iain Pears has worked as an art historian, a television consultant, and a journalist, in England, France, Italy, and the United States. He is the author of six highly praised detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial, and historical subjects. He lives in Oxford, England. young daughter of a civil war radical and the book's most notable victim. Her story -- that of an unprotected woman assailed by the forces of misogyny and Realpolitik -- is the book's emotional core. It is Sarah Blundy who saves

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Thom wrote: "Interestingly I never cared for the various series based on his books. I'd watch a few episodes and that was it. Talented as he may have been, I doubt he's a good one for me."Messianic Archetype: According to Wood's interpretation of the events, Sarah Blundy is a reincarnation of Jesus. More recently, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California has installed LED fingerposts which orient themselves to planets, missions, and exoplanets using data supplied by the Deep Space Network. [11] A finger post at Keymer in West Sussex (formerly East Sussex), showing the B-road number and significant destinations on it

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I am writing this review years after having read the book. A lot of the particulars are therefore no longer easily retrievable from my brain.I have been spared riches and fame and power and position, just as His goodness has saved me from poverty and great illness.” Anthony Wood

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Along with the new areas of philosophy, which includes the budding knowledge of medicine, alchemy and belief in witchcraft still exist. It's a veritable stew of contrary beliefs and mistrust. Add to that a death that may or may not have been suspicious, apparent witnesses who may or may not have seen anything, and multiple reporters on the event who give us their views on what happened. Olivier is purportedly a great poet, but the only fragments of his verse we encounter are '(in the wholly inadequate 1865 translation of Frédéric Mistral) "My eyes have stabbed my soul..." ' This is more than inadequate, it is an appalling cop-out. Manlius's classical wit is marked with a similar ellipsis: 'They swapped aphorisms about water, played with quotations from Pliny about his garden...' What aphorisms? Which quotations? And Julien's great intellect is evident only in his knowing silences.

Jaeger, Paige (February–March 2023). "From Fingerposts to GPS". New York State Conservationist. Albany, New York: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation . Retrieved 13 September 2023. Iain Pears, like Stewart, is a respected academic, the author of a monograph on eighteenth-century collectors, but he's not too proud to publish crime novels under his own name. His Italian art-world romps have titles like The Bernini Bust and The Raphael Affair: they're light and ingenious and they sell well; and their success has encouraged him to move ever further into the mainstream. Local variation in historic designs [ edit ] A typical Royal Label Factory West Riding "Geared" fingerpost with the parish name and grid reference on the roundel.