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The Clerkenwell Tales

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349580
Titel	The Clerkenwell Tales
Auteur	Ackroyd, Peter
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Chatto & Windus
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	1856197069
ISBN13	9781856197069
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Brilliant historical novel, set in London in the late 14th century. 'I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods.' Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she 'see' a future in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? This clever and colourful novel begins with The Nun's Tale, and continues with The Friar's Tale, The Merchant's Tale and The Clerk's Tale... Thus, story by story, Peter Ackroyd builds his portrait of medieval London. The people are disenchanted by the Church, with its wealth and corruption, its Pope in Rome and its Pope in Avignon. But heresy is dangerous... almost as dangerous as rebellion. This is a novel about spies and counter-spies, radicals and idealists, murderers and arsonists, sects and secret societies…
Pagina's	213
Conditie	Goed — Browned.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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