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Foxglove Manor - cover

Foxglove Manor

Robert Williams Buchanan

Publisher: Musaicum Books

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Summary

Excerpt: "The following attempt at a tragedy in fiction (a tragedy, however, without a tragic ending) must not be construed into an attack on the English priesthood generally. I have simply pictured, in the Rev. Charles Santley, a type of man which exists, and of which I have had personal experience. Fortunately, such men are uncommon; still more fortunately, the clergymen of, the English Establishment are for the most part sane and healthy men, too unimaginative for morbid deviations."
Available since: 05/07/2021.
Print length: 292 pages.

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