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Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (3rd Edition) by Professor David Underdown Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-300-05990-6 / 0300059906 ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05990-8 / 9780300059908 The town is Dorchester in Dorset; the time the beginning of the seventeenth century. Two hundred years before Hardy disguised it as Casterbridge, Dorchester was a typical English country town, of middling size and unremarkable achievements. But on 6 August 1613 much of it was destroyed in a great co |