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Four Birds of Noah's Ark: A Prayer Book from the Time of Shakespeare
Contributor(s): Dekker, Thomas (Author), Hudson, Robert (Editor)
ISBN: 0802874819     ISBN-13: 9780802874818
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
OUR PRICE:   $17.55  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living - Prayer
- History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious
Dewey: 242.8
LCCN: 2017020667
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 174 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Chronological Period - 16th Century
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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A timeless, little-known literary classic to engage a new generation of readers

As the Black Death ravaged London in 1608, in the midst of societal chaos and tragedy, playwright Thomas Dekker wrote Four Birds of Noah's Ark, a book containing fifty-six prayers for the people of London and all of England.

The prayers in this book bear witness to Dekker's deep faith with a power and poignancy that few written prayers in English literature achieve. Bringing Dekker's devotional classic back into print for the first time since 1924, editor Robert Hudson has annotated the prayers and modernized their language without sacrificing their enchanting beauty and simplicity. Hudson's substantive and illuminating introduction is a gem in itself.