The Corner That Held Them
'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah WatersThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women.'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Time…
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- ISBN: 978-0-241-45482-4
- EAN: 9780241454824
- Produktnummer: 33717973
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'227 KB
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
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