The Children of the Abbey - Regina Maria Roche- 1881 J. B. Lippincott & Co vintage hardback Arthur C. Clarke Blurb: 2nd Printing

Blurb: 2nd Printing

Like the music of its title

along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind

After 18 years of living in their gilded cage

presenting his efforts as a civil rights crusader

The Children of the Abbey - Regina Maria Roche- 1881 J. B. Lippincott & Co vintage hardback Arthur C. Clarke Blurb: 2nd PrintingBlurb: Running through at least eighty editions in the 18th and 19th centuries, Regina Maria Roches The Children of the Abbey (1796) was one of the biggest successes of its time, rivalling and perhaps even outselling Ann Radcliffes seminal Gothic The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). The heroine of Roches novel, Amanda Fitzalan, and her brother Oscar, are unfortunate siblings defrauded of their rightful inheritance, Dunreath Abbey, by a will forged by a