THE GOLDEN EXILE

by Lawrence Schoonover ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 3, 1951

Author of The Burnished Blade and The Gentle Infidel with yet another highly colored picaresque novel, in the romantic tradition. The story concerns itself this time with the Chevalier de Brunne, Baron Beaumont, and of the acquisitiveness of his neighbor the Abbott, who tricked him into having to go to the Holy Land on penance- and return in a year and a day or forfeit his rich lands. The violences of the times, when Edward the First was only beginning to lay down laws for safe-guarding his people -- the endless struggle between Christian and Arab worlds -- the almost naive assumption on the part of De Brunne that his was a legitimate charge, combined to produce a series of misadventures that took him beyond the secret Suez water passage to the Far East, to Cambodia and other lands known but little by Westerners. It brought him too into contact with the lovely Elaine, into perilous pursuit of his love, into slavery and danger. And eventually back to England, only to find there not the quiet orderly land he had promised Elaine, but more vile plottings on the part of the Lord Abbott -- and ultimate justice of English law. Fast paced narrative -- thoroughly readable but not very important as a contribution to historical scholarship.

Pub Date: April 3, 1951

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Macmillan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1951

Categories: FICTION