Ceremony of the Innocent [antikvár]

FOREWORDThis is a story of a tragic woman and a tragic country. It is two stories, but they parallel each other and often touch and briefly merge, and at the end they are one.The historical details in this book were given in an earlier book of mine, Captains and the Kings, which carries a complete bibliography, and need not be repeated here. The conspiracy does indeed exist, but under other names.While this book is not my autobiography, and Ellen Porter's background is not mine, nor her appearanceand I was bora many years later than she was boraher thoughts have been my thoughts and her experiences mine also. I have encountered many of the people in this book and have endured from them what Ellen Porter had en-dured, though they are a composite picture here and so cannot be identified. Many of them, too, are now dead.So in many ways though this is a bittér book it is a true one.There is an old saying, "Only a man can húrt himself. But only a man can hurt a woman."Taylor Caldwell