Come Rack! Come Rope (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Robert Hugh Benson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440061149 ISBN 13 : 9781440061141

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Hook line: A dying speech on the gallows frames a tense tale of faith, courage, and consequence. The book casts a stark light on power, piety, and public judgment.

The scene centers on a priest facing execution during a time of religious conflict. Tense crowds, forcing questions of loyalty and belief, surround him as he speaks what may be his last sermon. The story threads personal courage with a wider struggle between conscience and authority, building toward a dramatic, reflective finish.

Through the prisoner’s ordeal and the reactions of those who watch, the narrative blends historical detail with intimate emotion. It asks how faith endures under pressure, and what it means to choose one’s final words when everything is on the line.

• Experience a charged setting of public judgment and ritual at the moment of death.


• Follow a prisoner’s deliberate, heart-tested words under extreme pressure.


• Explore themes of faith, loyalty, courage, and the cost of belief.


• Observe how bystanders react to faith under threat and power in conflict.

Ideal for readers who enjoy historical drama centered on faith, courage, and the human cost of persecution.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson (Archbishop of Canterbury) and his wife, Mary, and the younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson and A. C. Benson. Benson was educated at Eton College and then studied classics and theology at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1890 to 1893. In 1895, Benson was ordained a priest in the Church of England by his father, who was the then Archbishop of Canterbury. After his father died suddenly in 1896, Benson was sent on a trip to the Middle East to recover his own health. While there he began to question the status of the Church of England and to consider the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. His own piety began to tend toward the High Church tradition, and he started exploring religious life in various Anglican communities, eventually obtaining permission to join the Community of the Resurrection. Benson made his profession as a member of the community in 1901, at which time he had no thoughts of leaving the Church of England. As he continued his studies and began writing, however, he became more and more uneasy with his own doctrinal position and, on 11 September 1903, he was received into the Catholic Church. He was awarded the Dignitary of Honour of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Benson was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1904 and sent to Cambridge. He continued his writing career along with his ministry as a priest. Like both his brothers, Edward Frederic Benson ("Fred") and Arthur Christopher Benson, Robert wrote many ghost and horror stories, as well as children's stories and historical fiction. His horror and ghost fiction are collected in The Light Invisible (1903) and A Mirror of Shallott (1907). His novel, Lord of the World (1907), is generally regarded as one of the first modern dystopian novels (see List of dystopian literature). The bibliography below reveals a prodigious output. Benson died in 1914 in Salford, where he had been preaching a mission. He was 42. At his request, he was buried in the orchard of Hare Street House, his house in the Hertfordshire village of Hare Street. A chapel, dedicated to St Hugh, was built over the site. Benson bequeathed the house to the Catholic Church as a county retreat for the Archbishop of Westminster. The Roman Catholic church in the nearby town of Buntingford, which he helped finance, is dedicated to St Richard of Chichester, but also known as the Benson Memorial Church.

Présentation de l'éditeur

His eyes should shine, his lips should sing; he should slap his mare upon her shoulder and call her his darling. The puddles upon his way should be turned to pure gold, and the stream that runs beside him should chatter her name. Yet, as Robin rode toM arjorie none of these things were done. It was a still day of frost; the sky was arched above him, across the high hills, like that terrible crystal which is the vault above which sits God hard blue from horizon to horizon; the fringe of feathery birches stood like filigree-work above him on his left; on his right ran theD erwent, sucking softly among his sedges; on this side and that lay the flat bottom through which he went meadowland broken by rushes; his mare Cecily stepped along, now cracking the thin ice of the little pools with her dainty feet, now going gently over peaty ground, blowing thin clouds from her red nostrils, yet unencouraged by word or caress from her rider; who sat, heavy and all but slouching, staring with his blue eyes under puckered eyelids, as if he went to an appointment which he would not keep. Yet he was a very pleasant lad to look upon, smoothfaced and gallant, mounted and dressed in a manner that should give any lad joy.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440061149
• ISBN 13: 9781440061141
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 477
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