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1666

par Geraldine Brooks

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Based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith, the vicar's maid, as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. As the death toll rises and people turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna emerges as an unlikely and courageous heroine in the village's desperate fight to save itself.… (plus d'informations)

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Anna, a miner's wife, a mother of two young sons lives through the plague in her small English village. This account is based on the story of a village that isolated itself to avoid spreading the "plague seeds" to other villages. Although it took a terrible toll on this village, their actions did save the surrounding villages. (

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mojomomma | Sep 11, 2023 |

This is the second Geraldine Brooks book I have read and just like [b:People of the Book|1379961|People of the Book|Geraldine Brooks|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1442955497s/1379961.jpg|3020568] it is a warm-hearted historical page turner. The story of a village ravaged by plague in the seventeenth century is compelling and emotionally engaging. Anna Frith, the narrator and hero, is a very likeable character, with a fierce intelligence and a real personal journey over the pages. Brooks effectively evokes the brutality of life before the industrial revolution, with so much depending on luck. A woman with a good husband and good health could live quite well, but if her luck failed her in either way, she was doomed to a life of misery and struggle.

The ending of the book is somewhat baffling, slipping from drama into melodrama for the last thirty pages or so in a way that actually undermines the truth of much of what precedes it. However, this doesn't seem intentional, so I choose to judge the book in terms of its first seven eighths, rather than the last.

The prose has great rhythm and tone, with the action compelling and swift and the sadder moments much quieter and more measured. Stylistically it relies on occasional ye olde language that is probably not accurate, but helps to create the right mood regardless. (

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robfwalter | Jul 31, 2023 |

Here's what I wrote in 2008 about this read: "How coinidental to read another plague-centered story so quickly. An early feminist is involved in caring for the dying around her, while searching for love (with an married village rector). Inspired by an actual village in Derbyshire." (

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khage | Jul 23, 2023 |

I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It was both heartbreaking and uplifting. The author drew me in and I shared Anna's joys, sorrows, triumphs and losses. (

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Discriminating readers who view the term historical novel with disdain will find that this debut by praised journalist Brooks (Foreign Correspondence) is to conventional work in the genre as a diamond is to a rhinestone. With an intensely observant eye, a rigorous regard for period detail, and assured, elegant prose, Brooks re-creates a year in the life of a remote British village decimated by the bubonic plague.

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Nom de l'auteur	Rôle	Type d'auteur	Œuvre ?	Statut
Brooks, Geraldine	—	auteur principal	toutes les éditions	confirmé
Diano, Francesca	Traducteur	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé
Hodge, Patricia	Reader	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé
Robert-Nicoud, Elie	Traduction	auteur secondaire	quelques éditions	confirmé
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Alex Award (2002)

Indies Choice Book Award (Honor Book – Paperback – 2003)

Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers’ Choice Award (Nominé – 2005)

Nib Literary Award (Shortlist – 2002)

Virginia Literary Awards (Finalist – Fiction – 2002)

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1666

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Year of Wonders

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Eyam, Derbyshire, England, UK

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Alex Award (2002)

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Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award Nominee (2005)

CAL Waverly Library Award for Literature Shortlist (2002)

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O let it be enough what thou hast done,
When spotted deaths ran arm'd through every street,
With poison'd darts, which not the good could shun,
The speedy could outfly, or valiant meet.

The living few, and frequent funerals then,
Proclaim'd thy wrath on this forsaken place:
And now those few who are return'd agen
Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace.

- From Annus Mirabilis, The Year of Wonders, 1666, by John Dryden

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Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

Inasmuch as he knew what love meant, he knew he loved me, and all the more so when I gave him the boys.

This was no stealthy retreat. The Hall hummed like a struck hive.

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Before sunset, no less than four families were visited so, by deaths that reached across generations, snatching children and parents with the same dread hand.

I set my morning to the rhythmic thump of my own knife, and its tattoo became, to me, the hopeful music of healing.

When he hefted his sack and went on, I stood and stared after his retreating back, wondering what kind of ill thing my good intentions might have hatched.

In his callousness, he would knock upon the doors of the ailing, saying if they wanted a grave he would dig it then and there or not at all. And so a person who yet lived would lie in his sickbed and listen to the rise and fall of my father's spud. I think that his heartless behavior hastened more than one person into the ground.

Michael Mompellion's face was quiet, but his voice was so cold I thought it would blast my father like an ice storm.

The crowd was thickening now as yarn gathers itself on a spindle.

The storm that had threatened at morning blew in by early afternoon. It came from the northeast, in sheets of snow that marched across the far valley in separate leaves, like the pages of a letter whipped from someone's hands in a wind gust.

After Alun Houghton's gravelly voice, my words seemed weightless, carried away by the wind.

I wondered then if others had these fell thoughts, or whether I was drifting slowly into madness.

There had been fear here, since the very beginning, but where it had been veiled, now it had become naked. Those of us who were left feared each other and the hidden contagion we each might carry. People scurried, stealthy as mice, trying to go and come without meeting another soul.

It became impossible for me to look into the face of a neighbor and not imagine him dead.

We were sorely depleted already in trades of all kinds. Horses who threw a shoe went without since the death of the farrier. We were without malter and mason, carpenter and cloth-weaver, thatcher and tailor. Many fields lay covered in unbroken clods, neither harrowed nor sown. Whole houses stood empty; entire families gone from us, and names that had been known here for centuries gone with them.

Fear took each of us differently.

"None of us is master of himself as we should be in these times."

So John Gordon's flesh was mortified in death as in life, lying naked under the sky, left to the untender mercies of Nature.

But fear, as I have said, was working strange changes in all of us, corroding our ability for clear thought.

For every one of us who still walked upon the Earth, two of us lay under it.

Some days, even the effort of thought seemed burdensome.

And yet some memories cannot be rooted out like weeds, no matter how much one wills to do it.

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- 2003-03-11 (1e traduction et édition française, Calmann-Lévy)
- 2004-12-02 (Réédition française, Domaine étranger, 10/18)

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Based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young preacher convinces the villagers to seal themselves off in a deadly quarantine to prevent the spread of disease. The story is told through the eyes of eighteen-year-old Anna Frith, the vicar's maid, as she confronts the loss of her family, the disintegration of her community, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit love. As the death toll rises and people turn from prayers and herbal cures to sorcery and murderous witch-hunting, Anna emerges as an unlikely and courageous heroine in the village's desperate fight to save itself.

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