Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Corner That Held Them

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A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-68137-388-1
EAN: 9781681373881
Produktnummer: 29516651
Verlag: New York Review Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 424 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'124 KB

Über den Autor

Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes (available from NYRB Classics), appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Over the course of her long career, Warner published six more novels, seven books of poetry, a translation of Proust, fourteen volumes of short stories, and a biography of T.H. White. NYRB also publishes her novels Mr. Fortune and Summer Will Show.