Falconer's crusade
"Oxford University in 1264, seems an oasis of peace in the power struggles that rack England ... until the savage murder of a young girl kindles a frenzy of suspicion between privileged students and impoverished townspeople. And when on of Falconer's students who may have witnessed the crime narrowly escapes being beaten to death by a lynch mob, the Regent Master rushes to his defense. Daringly progressive teacher, Aristotelian philosopher, falconer is also a keen amateur detective who must use his sharp eye for human foibles and his relentless logic to solve the heinous crime. Reviewing one suspect after another, he will soon discover dangerous secrets that will challenge every one of his skills and tangle him in a world of heresy, magic, politics and ferocious violence."--BOOK COVER.
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Nonfiction, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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Nonfiction · Fiction
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Dark tone · Steady pace
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-3129-5697-4
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL26333455M
A more thoughtful way into this book
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Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.
Begin with its place in Nonfiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- Whose perspective organizes the story, and whose perspective remains outside it?
- Which sources or lived experiences carry the author’s central argument?
- How does the book change the way you understand its larger subject?
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