An instance of the Fingerpost

Pears, Iain

An instance of the Fingerpost / Iain Pears - New York : Riverhead Books 1998. - 698p.

A question of precedence --
The great trust --
The character of compliance --
An instance of the fingerpost.

A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking.

9780099751816

Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035


Literature
English and Old English literatures
English fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction.
Oxford (England) -- Fiction.
England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Physicians -- England -- Fiction.

823.914 PEA

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