The Devil's Road
Published on 18. September 2019
345 pages
978-1-912868-13-1 (ISBN)
Description
While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway George Stephenson's workers discover a female corpse with a dagger stuck between her ribs-could it be that of Lady Beresford, the French wife of a local baron who disappeared under mysterious circumstances twenty years ago? The identity of the victim is at the heart of Jean-Pierre Ohl's novel, a richly woven tapestry set during the rise of capitalism in England.
The Devil's Road has a Dickensian range of characters from the indolent liberal lawyer Bailey, with a taste for Byron's poems and madeira wine, his imperturbable clerk Snegg, the activist worker Davies and the 'Corporal', a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and demonstrator wounded at the Peterloo Massacre-there is even a role for the young Charles Dickens working in the blacking warehouse.
The Devil's Road has a Dickensian range of characters from the indolent liberal lawyer Bailey, with a taste for Byron's poems and madeira wine, his imperturbable clerk Snegg, the activist worker Davies and the 'Corporal', a veteran of the Napoleonic wars and demonstrator wounded at the Peterloo Massacre-there is even a role for the young Charles Dickens working in the blacking warehouse.
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The Devil's Road
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Jean-Pierre Ohl has combined a career as a bookseller with his writing. He is the author of three novels Mr Dick or The Tenth Book, The Lairds of Cromarty and The Devil's Road, all set in the UK and published in English by Dedalus.
He lives in the Dordogne.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Contents
- The Author
- The Translator
- Prologue
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Epilogue
- Copyright
