Item #28111 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. Lower corners bit bruised, two tiny nicks to upper front edge, a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with mild wear to corner tips and spine ends, a series of small scratches and nicks to upper front panel at and above the title lettering. (28111). Item #28111

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