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A Street Shaken by Light - The Story of William Neilson, Volume I (Hardcover)
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A Street Shaken by Light - The Story of William Neilson, Volume I (Hardcover)
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One of Britain's outstanding historical writers delivers a romantic
and picaresque masterpiece that tells the fascinating story of
William Neilson. In 1720, the young William Neilson leaves
Edinburgh to make his fortune in Europe, first sailing to Rotterdam
and then on foot to Paris, where he meets and is immediately
employed by the banker John Law. A day later he is in the Bastille,
but not before he has encountered a young woman of surpassing
beauty to whom Neilson will be devoted for the rest of his life.
Imprisoned in the Bastille, he has no possibility of seeing or
communicating with his beloved. When at last he recovers his
freedom, he is despatched at once to sea, bound for the Indies. He
will be shipwrecked, become an equerry on the Ile-de-France, anon
command a disorderly legion in Persia, become a linguist able to
hold his own in diplomatic and mercantile circles, all the while
anticipating a summons from the Stuart king in exile in Rome, until
he is sent back to France, and thence to Scotland in the service of
the Young Pretender. This is brilliant, irresistibly entertaining
fiction. A whole world of adventure and romance comes alive in the
hands of one of our most ingenious storytellers, one of our finest
writers.
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