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Download Now Free Download Here Download Ebook 6UrLv (Read ebook) Pavane Online [6UrLv.ebook] Pavane Pdf Free Keith Roberts *Download PDF | ePub | DOC | audiobook | ebooks Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #25715 in Audible 2011-10-25Format: UnabridgedOriginal language:EnglishRunning time: 565 minutes | File size: 48.Mb Keith Roberts : Pavane before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised Pavane: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Religious Repression and ReformBy DrPatThe title is a brilliant reflection of the diversion-point from reality for this alternate-history novel (see footnote 2). This is the twentieth century of a world in which Queen Elizabethmdash;Good Queen Bess, the daughter of Harry VIII and his second wife Anne Boleynmdash;was assassinated before her reign could fairly begin. With the English Queen dead, Catholic Phillip brought his armada from Spain to conquer England in the wake of the chaos that followed. The Anglican church was thus suppressed; the Catholic Church is a major political power in the world, and industry is organized to serve the purposes of evangelism first.The story is told from the point-of-view of several characters, one for each "measure," whose lives converge. Each of the measures can be read as a stand-alone story, but together they form a serious examination of the consequences of religious-ruled society in which internal combustion engines were until very recently banned as the work of the Devil, electricity is still under the Papal ban, and everyone tithes to the Vatican on pain of death.Jesse Strange would be an industrialist in real, Protestant England; in this alternate Catholic land, his haulage engines are strange locomotive/truck hybrids, and the non-Church focus of his business puts him on the fringe of society. "The Lady Margaret" is the name of his locomotive, the title of his measure, and a clue to his unrequited love for Margaret the barmaid.In "The Signaller," Rafe is a fortunate youngster whose obsession over the signal towers that form the single non-Church power network in England is rewarded when a childless officer in the Signaller Guild "adopts" him into the Guild. His luck vanishes when his first solo assignment runs afoul of the Church's ancient opponent in England. This measure is the most mystical and fantastical of the six.In "The White Boat," a naive Poole Harbor girl named Becky makes an assumption about her options. She can stay in her southern coast village, which is already under suspicion because of an unexplained incident with a mad monk named John in her father's time, or she can swim out to the ship she sees off-shore, and escape her rural fate. Alas, the white boat is no innocent craft, but a smuggler's vessel from Bermuda. Its cargo is strange indeed."Brother John" is a relatively happy lithographer-artist, serving his city monastery print shop until his cheerful industrial service to God is overturned by a command session as illustrator for the Office of the Inquisition. Haunted by the memory, he rejects the Church and begins to preach the need for reform throughout southern England.In "Lords and Ladies," Margaret Strange toys with a wealthy young man whose world is alien to hers. Her heritage as a hauler's child (daughter of Margaret the barmaid and Jesse Strange's younger brother) bars her from consideration as wife of the heir to Corfe Gate, the south-coast castle. But her confidence as heir to the Strange Haulage empire gives her an advantage the "ladies" of the castle do not have.The final measure, "Corfe Gate," ties together the threads of reform that are woven through the first five stories, as the Church clashes with a revolt they themselves have fueled with punitive tithes and Inquisitorial torments. The spirits of Brother John, Jesse Strange, and Signaller Rafe are all evoked in the battle for religious freedom in England.The world of "Pavane" described in these six measures is rich, strange and familiar by turns. If it feels medieval, this is perhaps a natural result of centuries of involvement by the Catholic Church in every facet of civil life, and the anti-science focus the Church's power has taken.Liner Notes:1. I found the "Coda" (actually an epilogue named in the same dance-piece theme as the "measures") a let-down after the growing power of Pavane's measures. It is worth reading it to see the direction the author intended for his tale, but it comes off as an afterthought.2. Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess" [Maurice Ravel: Daphnis Chloe/Pavane For A Dead Princess] was described by the composer as "a wistful daydream of something a sixteenth-century Spanish princess might have danced to," rather than a dirge or funeral piece. Ravel often complained that too many pianists played his pavane too slowly.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Imaginative, entertaining and well written.By JamesA well known work and a nostalgic second read for me. As excellent as I remember, this series of stories is focussed on certain characters and places set in a parallel history of England, one where Queen Elizabeth I was assassinated. The Roman Catholic Church remained in control; world-wide technological progress was delayed as was social and political development. This alternative history is depicted in a wonderfully crafted way, but the stories are of characters and events, the historical background is solid and believable but skilfully kept second to the tales being told by the author. A wonderful read.10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Not a typical "Alternate History" - and that's a Good Thing.By W. D.Pavane is promoted as an alternate history book, but it is not really like most works of that genre, which seem to focus more on technique than anything else. It reminded me strongly of Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz in more than a few ways, particularly tone, structure, and the Catholic atmosphere.The book is not one single narrative, but six short stories plus a coda section, taking place over a period of several generations. While reading it, you may think that the stories are barely related, but as you read on, you discover more and more connections, like the pieces of a puzzle falling into place. (For this reason, don't take the advice of the earlier reviewer who suggested only reading the first two stories.) Then the coda comes along with a revelation that causes you to rethink everything that came before -- and perhaps read the book over again to see what you missed.The images of the England in Pavane will stay with you a long time. This book is a treasure; it deserves its reputation. Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Award-winning author, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this book, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this work for his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on Pavane: "When Old Earth Books told me they are reissuing Pavane, which was originally published in 1968, I told them: 'I read one story from Pavane when I was nine, and it scarred me.... I read the whole book as a teenager and learned where that story had come from, and the shape of the whole story and I felt the scars heal....' Pavane was Keith Roberts' masterpiece: profound and still remarkable." Considered Keith Roberts' masterwork, this novel consists of linked short stories (six measures and a coda) of a 20th century in which the Roman Catholic Church controls the Western world, and has done so since Queen Elizabeth of England was assassinated in 1588. The Protestant Reformation never happened, and the world is kept in a Dark Age of steam-power transportation, with no allowance for electrical power, by a tyrannical Rome. Pavane shows the harshness of life in this society and details the generational struggle for independence by the citizens of Dorset, England. It's through this series of moving tales that Roberts interweaves a discussion of Destiny and History that take the book out of the ordinary. 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