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The Crucible

Sara Douglass · 3 novels · 2000–2002

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Sara Douglass' The Crucible trilogy follows an English friar and nobleman, Thomas Neville, drawn into a war between heavenly and infernal forces across England and Europe during the late Middle Ages. It comprises The Nameless Day, The Wounded Hawk, and The Crippled Angel.

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  • 2000s3

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3 novels

1 author · completed series

reads like:historical fantasyplague and pandemiceuropemedievaldarkadult

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Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.

this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone

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