Alton Locke
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,…
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This is a classic novel, and deserves to still be read for its importance historically. Not many novels cover so accurately that turbulent period of Britain's Chartist rebellion of the 1840s - and the reason so many talented individuals were lost to the country, emigrating to the United States to help build that nation. There are plenty of non-fiction accounts but they rarely capture what it felt like. The novel is well-plotted up to the last segment where an attempt is made to describe the protagonist's feverish dreams and his eventual reconciliation with Christ, which to me was almost unreadable.…
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