✍ Scribed by Keith Roberts
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 285 pages
Published 1968
Burgess 99 Novels Best (1939-1983)
1588: Queen Elizabeth is felled by an assassin's bullet. Within the week, the Spanish Armada had set sail, and its victory changed the course of history. 1968: England is still dominated by the Church of Rome. There are no telephones, no television, no nuclear power. As Catholicism and the Inquisition tighten their grip, rebellion is growing.
In six stately measures PAVANE creates another time and another place within the borders of reality.
The place is Twentieth Century England—but a land untouched by the Industrial Revolution; a melancholy land of lumbering steam engines and feudal existence, enslaved by the Church of Rome. It is a time of fear, pervaded by ancient memories and forbidden tales of half-remembered wraiths called The Old Ones. The people are bound to the land in ignorance, governed by the simple rhythms of moon and sun, ploughing and reaping, birth and death.
Each of the six measures is a separate story, but each is linked to the others in a progression of patterns and inevitability until the Coda reveals a symmetry as logical as it is beautiful. PAVANE is a remarkable fantasy, written in the same graceful, beguiling manner as Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings.
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