Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
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1st Printing Feb 1967
Blurb: “On a bleak December day in the year 1170, there occurred the most notorious crime in English history:
THE MURDER OF THOMAS A BECKET, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
Author Shelley Mydans re-creates the tumultuous life of Thomas à Becket in a novel that sweeps the reader back into the twelfth century, into the love-hate relationship between a stubborn archbishop and a fiery English king, into a dark cathedral at the moment of infamy. Shelley Mydans' THOMAS has won the highest critical acclaim of any historical novel in recent times.
"Of all the portraits of Thomas à Becket-including the dramas of T. S. Eliot and Anouilh-THIS IS THE BEST.... Mrs. Mydans turns him from legend into flesh and blood." —NEW YORK POST”