The Corner That Held Them
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The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors.Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story--stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing--of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist's art.
Sylvia Townsend Warner is the author of The Corner That Held Them and The Nature of the Moment and has translated Proust s Contre Saint-Beuve into English. Claire Harman is the author of biographies of Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Sylvia Townsend Warner and is the editor of a version of Robert Louis Stevenson s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781681373874 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681373874 |
| Title | The Corner That Held Them |
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2019-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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