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The Clerkenwell Tales
Peter Ackroyd
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Description for The Clerkenwell Tales
Paperback. Sister Clarice, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. This novel begins with "The Nun's Tale", and continues with the "The Friar's Tale", "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Clerk's Tale", building a portrait of medieval London, where people are disenchanted by the Church. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange signs and portents are troubling the latter part of his reign. By the side of the River Fleet in Clerkenwell the people are restless, disenchanted with the church and their King. The streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun, Sister Clarice, who has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a genuine prophet, or the ... Read more
The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange signs and portents are troubling the latter part of his reign. By the side of the River Fleet in Clerkenwell the people are restless, disenchanted with the church and their King. The streets of London are rife with rumour, heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun, Sister Clarice, who has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a genuine prophet, or the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749386306
SKU
V9780749386306
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About Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society ... Read more
Reviews for The Clerkenwell Tales
The Clerkenwell Tales is a truly extraordinary feat of historical imagination: a slim novel, straining at the seams with a sort of macabre relish, in which disgust and enthusiasm jostle
Sunday Telegraph
Historical fiction of the utmost potency
Daily Mail
A tour-de-force, full of rich imaginings and strange happenings. It is as finely wrought as an ... Read more
Sunday Telegraph
Historical fiction of the utmost potency
Daily Mail
A tour-de-force, full of rich imaginings and strange happenings. It is as finely wrought as an ... Read more