Longsword

Name: Longsword
Brand: Swan River Press
Price: 27.49 AUD

Earl of Salisbury

By: Thomas Leland, Albert Power (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 28 February 2022

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212 Pages

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19.84 x 12.85 x 1.22

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"Death's but a Path that must be trod, / If Man wou'd ever pass to God" - Thomas Parnell

Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, by eighteenth century Dublin-born clergyman Thomas Leland, is a fast-paced historical romance of medieval menace and high excitement. Set in the early years of the thirteenth century, it features a blend of real and created characters in a melee of intrigue, corruption, lust, and revenge. In part a metaphor for the tug-of-war between the sexes, Longsword is the definitive precursor to the Gothic novel; both in trappings and in style, it provides vital elements of prototype for Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and Lewis's The Monk. Through Longsword, Leland emerges as a forerunner of fellow Dublin clergyman Charles Robert Maturin, author of Melmoth the Wanderer. This 250th anniversary edition is edited and introduced by Albert Power.

Industry Reviews

"In [Montague] Summers's opinion [Longsword] is the first Gothic Historical novel and I am prepared to take his word for it. This puts Leland, a church of Ireland Minister, in the company of Le Fanu, Maturin and Bram Stoker as one of the great Irish heroes of the genre." - Reggie Oliver, Wormwood

"An old style, page turning ripping yarn . . . It aches to be made into a swashbuckling movie. There's plenty of intrigue and enough in the way of sword fights. The villains are properly dastardly and menacing and their comeuppance is suitably gratifying." - You're Reading...

"Swan River Press's Longsword represents an important step forward in a necessary literary renegotiation process. Combined with new and emerging scholarship, this new edition, it is hoped, will see Leland's novel re-invested with the literary significance it has long been denied." - Eighteenth-Century Ireland

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