The Mercy Seller: A Novel

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Macmillan, 2008 - Fiction - 448 pages

In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, Englishwoman Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious books---including forbidden translations of the Bible. As their secret trade grows ever more hazardous, Finn urges Anna to seek sanctuary in England. Her passage abroad, however, will be anything but easy.

Meanwhile, a priest in London, Brother Gabriel, dutifully obeys church doctrine by granting pardons . . . for a small fee. But when he is sent to France in disguise to find the source of the banned manuscripts finding their way to England, he meets Anna, who has set up a temporary stall as a bookseller. She has no way of knowing that the rich merchant frequenting her stall is actually a priest---just as he does not know that he has met the woman for whom he will renounce his church.
It is only in England, which is far from the safe harbor once imagined, that their dangerous secrets will be revealed.

 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
5
Section 3
12
Section 4
21
Section 5
30
Section 6
36
Section 7
46
Section 8
79
Section 20
238
Section 21
245
Section 22
255
Section 23
272
Section 24
284
Section 25
294
Section 26
304
Section 27
313

Section 9
117
Section 10
126
Section 11
133
Section 12
143
Section 13
148
Section 14
161
Section 15
174
Section 16
185
Section 17
212
Section 18
219
Section 19
227
Section 28
328
Section 29
339
Section 30
345
Section 31
357
Section 32
368
Section 33
378
Section 34
385
Section 35
398
Section 36
407
Section 37
418
Copyright

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The Mercy Seller: A Novel
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Limited preview - 2007
The Mercy Seller: A Novel
Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Limited preview - 2007

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About the author (2008)

BRENDA RICKMAN VANTREASE is a former English teacher and librarian who has traveled extensively in the British Isles. She is the author of the novels The Illuminator, The Mercy Seller, and The Heretic's Wife. She holds a Ph.D. in English and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Mercy Seller: A Novel
AuthorBrenda Rickman Vantrease
PublisherMacmillan, 2008
ISBN0312377851, 9780312377854
Length448 pages
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Fiction / Historical / Renaissance
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