The Refugees
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4.3 • 87 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A brilliant adventure tale of life in the Court of Louis XIV and of Canada under French rule and Huguenot persecution. The Refugees is set in both 17th Century France and in the wilds of North America. When you are reading the French episodes, you think you are reading Alexander Dumas. When reading the American episodes, you think you are reading James Fenimore Cooper. Yet, all of it was written by one person. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many people do not realize that the creator of Sherlock Holmes was also one of the best historical novelists of his day.
Customer Reviews
Leaving Home
Well written but sad story about forcing one’s beliefs on another to show your power. If everyone didn’t have the power to think for themselves what a sad world we would live in!
Gripping tale
Sherlock was his bread and butter but historical novels were his love. Sir Arthur’s riveting story of the expulsion of Huguenots from France has everything: palace intrigue at Versailles; shipwreck; Indian massacre; all told in those long Victorian sentences and beautiful descriptions, like this of the Canadian forest in autumn: "The tree shadows threw their crimsons and clarets and bronzes upon the fringes of the deep blue sheet of water.” He loved America.
A classic well worth reading!