An Instance of the Fingerpost: Explore the murky world of 17th-century Oxford in this iconic historical thriller

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Any page references refer to a USA edition of the book, usually the trade paperback version, and may vary in other editions. Were there any repercussions, when Wood told Kitty he would say nothing about her, but immediately told us he would go back on this in the future ? He did not realize that I saw, that instant, into his soul and perceived the devilish intent that lay hidden there, coiled and waiting to unleashed when all around had been lulled into thinking him a fool.

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It is as if they believed they could torment the departed soul with what they do with the empty shell. What relation do the part titles (“A Question of Precedence,”“The Great Trust,”“The Character of Compliance”) have to their respective narratives? A man who gives loyalty and understands the true responsibility of the word, not just when it is convenient, but from the first breath as he gives it to the last breath as he expires.The plot is at first centred on the death of Robert Grove [1] but later takes in the conspiracies of John Mordaunt and William Compton (of Compton Wynyates), and the politics of Henry Bennet and Lord Clarendon. Can you think of other books in which this multi-perspective technique was used to similar ends, or other books that feature unreliable narrators? Cassandra Dewell can’t leave Montana’s Lewis and Clark County fast enough for her new job as chief investigator for Jon Kirkbride, sheriff of Bakken County. Perfect Poison: (averted) The poison used is a rather large amount of arsenic and what the reader is told of the victim's death doesn't suggest a lack of dramatic physical reactions. Day Lewis masqueraded as Nicholas Blake; and 'Edmund Crispin' was in fact the composer Bruce Montgomery.

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The term "fingerpost" recently received some attention from its use in the best-selling novel, An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears. There is a 1 inch closed tear to the bottom edge of the dustjacket's rear panel at the corner of the spine. Then there was an absolutely bizarre ending about Sarah coming back to life after being hung, which left me utterly bemused. Rashomon meets The Name of the Rose in a triumphant triple-decker that knocks every speck of dust from the historical mystery. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Perhaps the ending was to show that however much we are lulled into taking Wood's story as the Instance of the Fingerpost pointing towards the real truth, even he will believe something without adequate evidence if it chimes with his own earlier beliefs, and is something he wants to be true.

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More recently, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California has installed LED fingerposts which orient themselves to planets, missions, and exoplanets using data supplied by the Deep Space Network. Pears uses this as the intellectual framework for his novel, and has adopted three of Bacon’s tenets as epigraphs for his narrators’ stories: The Idols of the Market (which refers to a misuse of language); The Idols of the Cavern (which refers to personal obsessions); and The Idols of the Theater (which refers to the danger of false reasoning). A contrast portrayed in the novel is, on one hand, a philosophy based on ancient and medieval learning, and, on the other, the scientific method that was beginning to be applied in physics, chemistry and medicine.At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. It held my interest at the start, despite the inhumane experiments on various animals, as I realized science demands these, and the characters seemed very likely for the time it was set. Yes, seems to be a Marmite book as I'm the same as Jill on this one, and also struggled with Pears' The Portrait.