The corner that held them
Book - 2019
"To become a nun in the fourteenth century was often a business transaction rather than a spiritual calling; it is small wonder, then, that the inhabitants of the Benedictine convent of Oby are prey to worldly ambitions, frustrations, pleasures and jealousies. An outbreak of the Black Death the collapse of the convent spire and a disappearance are the dramas that strike this cloistered community, which is brought vividly to life in Sylvia Townsend Warner's masterpiece"--
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- Genres
- Historical fiction
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New York :
New York Review Books
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- xiii, 399 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781681373874
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