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Author Bond, Douglas, 1958-

Title The betrayal : a novel on John Calvin / Douglas Bond.

Imprint Phillipsburg, N.J. : P & R Pub., ©2009.

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  FICTION BOND, DOUGLAS    Check Shelf
Description 383 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-383).
Summary Set amidst the backdrop of the scholarship and humanism of renaissance France, and its love of luxury, power, and decadence, this fast-paced biographical novel on John Calvin is told from the perspective of a rival whose envy escalates to violent intrigue.
Contents Note to the reader -- April 1918 : the bombardment -- The confession -- The accusative case -- Shorn head -- The voice of God -- The scourge of God -- The plague closes in -- Frank next door -- Carriage ride -- My new gown -- The price of learning -- Fleshed on the prey -- Paris burning -- My chapeau -- My license -- Changes afoot -- Orleans -- Light in Bourges -- Seeking Calvin -- Cost of quietude -- Providence -- Martyr burning -- Cop speaks out -- Flight! -- To Angouleme -- Caves and wine -- Royal feasting -- The Institutes -- A violent world -- Fiery farel -- Geneva -- Lausanne debate -- Banished! -- Strasbourg -- One hundred deaths -- Triumph at last -- The end -- Timeline of the Reformation and John Calvin's life -- Guide to further reading.
Subject Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 -- Fiction.
Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. (OCoLC)fst00044761
Reformation -- France -- Fiction.
Reformation. (OCoLC)fst01092555
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Genre/Form Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Biographical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726537
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Christian fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781596381254 (pbk.)
1596381256 (pbk.)
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