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Robert Hugh Benson

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Come Rack! Come Rope! By Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914)

Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert

Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the

time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harboring a priest

was considered treason and was punishable with death, it tells the story of two young lovers who give up their chance of happiness together, choosing instead to face imprisonment and martyrdom, so that "God's will" may be done.

The book was written nearly nine years after Benson's reception into the Catholic Church. The inspiration for the story comes trom Dom Bede Camm's account of the recusant Fitzherbert family in Forgotten Shrines (1910), and trom Benson's own visit in 1911 to Padley, home of the Fitzherberts, and scene of part of the novel, in order to preach at the annual pilgrimage there. The title of the book is taken from a letter of Saint Edmund Campion in which, after torture, he assured Catholics that he had revealed "no things of secret, nor would he, come rack, come rope." Most of the characters in the book are historical people; only the hero and heroine, their parents, and some minor characters are fictional. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)

Total running time: 14:21:24. Read by Maria Therese, James E. Carson, Phil Chenevert, & Helen Falconer. Book Coordinator/Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Maria Therese. Dedicated Proof-Listener: Stav Nisser.

This recording is in the public domain and may be reproduced, distributed, or modified without permission. For more information or to volunteer, visit librivox.org. Cover image is the cover of the edition published by Dodd, Mead & Company (1913). Author photo by G. Jerrard (1916). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU, and all countries with author’s life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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