THE BRIMSTONE PAPERS IS ONE OF THREE IN THE ISRAEL POTTER SERIES

"The Brimstone Papers, a prequel to Gone Over, is a rare historical novel. It excitingly dramatizes the life and adventures of an actual Revolutionary War figure, Israel Potter, while capturing the atmosphere and color of pre-war Colonial America, complete with thrilling battle sequences and unforgettable characters.

The novel's unique and often hilarious use of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary gives the novel the sense that it was actually written in 1775. The language is almost Dickensian in its sound and feel. If the purpose of historical fiction is to bring characters, and the time in which they live, to vivid life for a reader in a way that scholarly history does not, then The Brimstone Papers is a triumph of its genre."

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