Sarum(novel)
Appearance
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Author | Edward Rutherfurd |
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Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Century Hutchinson |
Publication date | 7 May 1987 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (Hardback&Paperback) |
Pages | 1145 pp(first edition) |
ISBN | 0-7126-1447-8 |
OCLC | 15591802 |
Sarum(also titledSarum: The Novel of England) is a work ofhistorical fictionbyEdward Rutherfurd,first published in 1987. It is Rutherfurd'sliterary debut.It tells the story of England through the tales of several families in and around the English city ofSalisbury,the writer's hometown, fromprehistorictimes to 1985.[1]
Characters
[edit]The main families ofSaruminclude:
- Forest
- Wilson
- Porters
- Mason
- Shockley
- Godfrey
Synopsis
[edit]The story covers major points of British history. The following chapter listing parallels major periods and events:
Old Sarum
[edit]- Journey to Sarum (prehistoric Britain,7500BC)
- The Barrow (the arrival ofagriculturein Britain, 4000BC)
- The Henge (the building ofStonehenge,2000BC)
- Sorviodunum (the arrival of theRomans,42AD)
- Twilight (the fall of theRoman Empire/arrival of theSaxons,427AD)
- The Two Rivers (arrival of theVikings/uniting of England, 877AD)
- The Castle (NormanEngland, 1139AD)
New Sarum
[edit]- The Founding (the founding ofNew Sarum/building ofSalisbury Cathedral,1244–1310)
- The Death (theBlack Death,1348–1382)
- The Rose (the Rule of Lancaster, 1456)
- A Journey From Sarum (1480)
- New World (TheReformation,1553–1580)
- The Unrest (TheEnglish Civil War/ theExclusion Crisis,1642–1688)
- The Calm (the eighteenth century, 1720–1779)
- Boney (theBattle of Trafalgar,1803–1830)
- Empire (theBritish Empire,1854–1889)
- The Henge II (World War I/the selling of Stonehenge, 1915)
- The Encampment (World War II,1944)
- The Spire (Salisbury in 1985)
References
[edit]- ^Quilligan, Maureen (13 September 1987)."OLDER THAN TEXAS, BIGGER THAN ISRAEL".New York Times.Retrieved25 April2019.