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The Corner That Held Them

Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.94/5 (854 ratings)
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In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Virago
Edition:
Virago Modern Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
086068878X
ISBN13:
9780860688785
kindle Asin:
B07LDSN93F

The Corner That Held Them

Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.94/5 (854 ratings)
Read Download
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

In memory of the wife who had once dishonoured and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
pages
Publication:
2008
Publisher:
Virago
Edition:
Virago Modern Classics
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
086068878X
ISBN13:
9780860688785
kindle Asin:
B07LDSN93F

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