Prisons

Mary Lee Settle

first published 1973 Ballantine Books, 1981 235 pages

Scribner signature edition

Prisons, the first 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 - 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 multitud...

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Prisons edition · 2021 · University of South Carolina Press · 9781643362335
Prisons edition · 1996 · University of South Carolina Press · 256 pages
Prisons paperback · 1987 · Scribner · 256 pages
Prisons edition · 1981 · Ballantine Books · 235 pages
Prisons. edition · 1973 · Putnam · 256 pages

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