In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy
The year is 1793. Paris quivers under the blade. When fourteen-year-old Harry Sandwith travels to France to serve in the household of a French Marquis, he expects adventure. What he finds is revolution. Henty drops his young protagonist into the beating heart of the Reign of Terror, where aristocratic blood stains the cobblestones and a whispered word can send even children to the scaffold. Harry must hide his English identity, outwit revolutionary informants, and decide where his loyalties lie when the very people who shelter him face the guillotine. This is adventure stripped to its bones: a boy against history, courage against circumstance, survival against overwhelming odds. Though written in 1889, the book captures something timeless about what it means to保持 true to oneself when the world demands your silence, or your head.
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J L Raimundo, Eden Rea-Hedrick, Ryan Cherrick
