Milton in America

Name: Milton in America
Author: Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd

1996 · EN

History Historical Fiction Travel

An alternate history novel in which the 17th Century English writer, John Milton, emigrates to America to escape the wrath of the royalists for his Puritan views. He is elected leader of a Puritan colony in New England and leads it in a war against a Catholic colony. A tale of religious intolerance.

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