Mary Lee Settle
1) Prisons
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Prisons follows the coming-of-age of Johnny Church from English youngster to dashing Oxford adolescent to idealistic Puritan in the service of Cromwell's Parliamentary Army. Throughout his evolution Johnny seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political, and religious prisons, not realizing that with each successive grasp at freedom, he escapes one form of captivity only to be confined by another.
Johnny's journey ends in a prison of...
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O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet- Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom-is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church's descendants as they leave England in search of freedom and land. One of those descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in the backcountry of Virginia, where he battles both Native Americans and white...