Eric Vuillard THE WAR OF THE POOR First Edition Signed
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Eric Vuillard THE WAR OF THE POOR First Edition Signed
First edition first print hardback of THE WAR OF THE POOR by Eric Vuillard and published by Picador in 2021. Signed by Vuillard on a special tipped in page. Numberline is 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. 'Signed Copy' sticker to front cover.The book is in as new condition (black cloth boards with metallic red lettering to spine) with no significant wear. The book is in a fine unclipped dust jacket which also has no wear to speak of. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.
The history of inequality is a long and terrible one. And it's not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, 'The War of the Poor' tells the story of a brutal episode from history, not as well known as tales of other popular uprisings, but one that deserves to be told.
Sixteenth-century Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the powerful and the privileged. Peasants, the poor living in towns, who are still being promised that equality will be granted to them in heaven, begin to ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on earth?
There follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas Muntzer: a complex and controversial figure, who sided with neither Martin Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Muntzer addressed the poor directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved the poor seemed to be on the side of the rich.
Eric Vuillard tells the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light on the times in which he lived - a moment when Europe was in flux. As in his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, 'The Order of the Day', Vuillard here once again takes us behind the scenes at a moment when history was being written.
66 pages.
ISBN: 9781529038538
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