Gentle Infidel: The Lawrence Schoonover Collection (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780976086734)

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Gentle Infidel: The Lawrence Schoonover Collection

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Gentle Infidel: The Lawrence Schoonover Collection

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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Gentle Infidel tells the story of a Venetian boy impressed into military service in the elite Janissary corps of the Grand Turk. The time period is the decade before the overthrow of the last capital of the Roman Empire.

During the fall of Constantinople the young warrior, hardened by years of training and trials of heartache, learns his own hidden history, and must use his skills and conscience to find his own path.

"Ignorant of his noble Venetian birth...he met and loved a beautiful Italian girl...midst the flames of fallen Constantinople and the crash of history's first cannonade"
- The New York Times

"Sheer adventure, fully panoplied and highly colored..."
-Kirkus book review

"A rip-roaring historical novel...a much better drawn background than usual for this kind of book..."
-Booklist

"...a contest of character-a Christian boy mistakenly inducted into the Janissary corps...His story smiles."
-New York Herald Tribune

Author: Lawrence Schoonover
ISBN-10: 0976086735
ISBN-13: 9780976086734
Publisher: Fountain City Publishing Company Enterprise
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2009
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d
By Lawrence Schoonover
By Lawrence Schoonover
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iLawrence Schoonover, successful author of highly popular historical and biographical novels, passed away in 1983 but left a legacy of exceptionally readable and thoroughly researched works of great interest to lovers of history, adventure, and romance. Schoonover was born in Iowa and graduated from the University of Wisconsin before moving to New York to work for a large advertising agency. In the spring of 1948 he began research for what was later published as The Burnished Blade, the novel which immediately won him critical accolades and was chosen as a Literary Guild selection. Many editions and millions of copies of his works have been printed and translated into eight languages including Spanish and Norwegian. Among his highly acclaimed works are The Spider King, a novel of King Louis XI who united France, and The QueenA[a'¬a„[s Cross about Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile and their reconquest of Spain

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