Item #25850 PAVANE. Keith Roberts.

PAVANE.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, cloth. First U. S. edition. This edition adds "The White Boat" which is not included in the U.K. edition. "Papal domination of Europe has slowed progress and a dystopian medievalism has lasted into the twentieth century" - Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 313-4. "... a striking work of the imagination." - Burgess, Ninety-nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939, p. 104. With his second book, Roberts came fully into his own as a writer. PAVANE superbly depicts an alternate history in which -- Elizabeth I having been assassinated, the Spanish Armada victorious and no Protestant rise of capitalism in the offing -- a technologically backward England survives under the sway of the Catholic Church Militant. The individual stories are moody, eloquent, elegiac and thoroughly convincing." - John Clute, SFE (online) Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 4-362. Pringle: Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels #58. A nearly fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a 33 mm closed tear to the upper right front panel/flap fold, mild wear to corner tips and spine ends, several rub spots to front spine fold and a small 13 mm closed tear to the upper spine panel. (25850). Item #25850

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