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Old Saint Paul's Volume 3: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
3 hours 57 minutes
ISBN
9781836100928
Published
16 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Great Plague
  • Great Fire of London
  • 17th-century London
  • historical disaster
  • Gothic drama
  • survival
  • religious fanaticism
  • love and betrayal
  • urban catastrophe
  • human resilience

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Description

Fire races through London as zealots, thieves, and a desperate city force Leonard Holt into a last stand of courage that can save a king and decide who survives St Paul’s burning vaults. Love, crime, and catastrophe reach their reckoning. Spoken as when the last volume still asks what the flames will spare of loyalty and ambition.

Author

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) was the great Victorian showman of historical romance — a novelist who filled magazines and bookstalls with highwaymen, witches, Tudor courts, and London underworlds. Rookwood made Dick Turpin a legend; Jack Sheppard turned a thief into a popular hero; The Lancashire Witches brought the Pendle trials back to feverish life.

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