Book 1997

Milton in America Exp Header

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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Language: English
Published: 1997

British
English Poets
Fiction
History
Journeys
Poets
United States
Colonies

An alternate history novel in which the 17th Century English writer, John Milton, emigrates to America to escape the wrath of the royalists for his Puritan views. He is elected leader of a Puritan colony in New England and leads it in a war against a Catholic colony. A tale of religious intolerance.