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The Saracen Lamp
Three mistresses of an English manor, each living in a different era, relate the influence on their lives of the Saracen lamp given to the first mistress as a wedding present in 1300.
This is a book that spans six hundred years. It begins with the marriage, in about 1300, of 15 year old Melisande, a girl of Southern France, to Sir Hugh de Hervey, six years older than hersel...more
This is a book that spans six hundred years. It begins with the marriage, in about 1300, of 15 year old Melisande, a girl of Southern France, to Sir Hugh de Hervey, six years older than hersel...more
Hardcover, 210 pages
Published
1970
by Atheneum
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Dec 14, 2008
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12/2011 This is one of my all-time favorites. It may well be where I first learned of The Black Death, which went on to become a passion of mine. It is certainly where I first heard of the Crusades, and where I learned about the Saracens. It's where I learned how Henry Tudor's sacking of the monasteries affected the populace at large, and any number of other historical curiosities that I was compelled to learn more about. Arthur is a fantastic writer, and her deft touch with the slightly spooky...more
I read this book in Jr High. I really liked. Honestly can't remember a lot of the story other than it was such a different kind of fiction book. Should definitely reread it.
One of my all time favorites from childhood!
One of my very favorite books as a kid! I named my Barbies after the characters in this book and the names stuck.
Even as a child I liked those generational sagas, and this book is also very evocative of the Crusades.
I read this book over the summer when I was a girl. I still remember the way the story drew me into its universe.
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Working name of UK writer Ruth Mabel Arthur Higgins, long active as a children's author, her career beginning with Friendly Stories (collection, 1932). Most of her early work, like the Brownie sequence -- The Crooked Brownie (1936), The Crooked Brownie in Town (1942) and The Crooked Brownie at the Seaside (1942) is for younger children, but with Dragon Summer (1962) and A Candle in her Room (1966)...more
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