2003, ISBN: 1856197069

Hardcover

[EAN: 9781856197069], Neubuch, [PU: Chatto & Windus, London], PETER ACKROYD NOVEL THE CLERKENWELL TALES LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY LONDON RICHARD II CANTERBURY CHARACTERS NARRATIVES, Jacket,… More...

[EAN: 9781856197069], Neubuch, [PU: Chatto & Windus, London], PETER ACKROYD NOVEL THE CLERKENWELL TALES LATE FOURTEENTH CENTURY LONDON RICHARD II CANTERBURY CHARACTERS NARRATIVES, Jacket, This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. 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. Ref * SS 3, Books<