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The Pocket Bible

by Eugène Sue

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In sixteenth-century France, Christian the printer and his family are caught between the new Protestant ideas and the newly founded Society of Jesus. Indulgences are sold, the ‘test of the Lutherans’ is applied, and heretics go to the fire as the family risks everything to keep a forbidden Bible.

A complete novel from Sue’s Mysteries of the People series, translated by Daniel De Leon, passionate and fiercely anticlerical. Download the free EPUB.

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