The Trial of Sren Qvist

ISBN: 0804011443

Author: Lewis, Janet

Condition: New

Originally published in 1947, The Trial of Sren Qvist has been praised by a number of critics for its intriguing plot and Janet Lewiss powerful writing. And in the introduction to this new edition, Swallow Press executive editor and author Kevin Haworth calls attention to the contemporary feeling of the story-despite its having been written more than fifty years ago and set several hundred years in the past. As in Lewiss best-known novel, The Wife of Martin Guerre, the plot derives from Samuel March Phillipss nineteenth-century study, Famous Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, in which this British legal historian considered the trial of Pastor Sren Qvist to be the most striking case.