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

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Language
English
Length
120 pages
ISBN
9781836102434
Published
11 March 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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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. Ainsworth’s closing volume of conflagration, justice, and love remade from ash. Old Saint Paul’s falls so a future can rise.

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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