An Infinity of Little Hours
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An Infinity of Little Hours by Nancy Klein Maguire
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster in West Sussex, the largest centre of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behaviour and lifestyle since its foundations in 1084.
"Maguire has produced a vivid, gripping and deeply touching picture of a world that is now lostFor an outsider to enter such a closed society and to capture its essence is an astonishing achievement: this is a work of history, but it has all the best qualities of a psychological novel." Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of The Reformation: A History "A warm, readable account of life in Parkminster Charterhouse during the 1960s." The Bookseller"
Nancy Klein Maguire is the author of numerous publications on the relationship of theatre and politics in the seventeenth century. She is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC since 1983.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781586483272 |
| ISBN 10 | 1586483277 |
| Title | An Infinity of Little Hours |
| Author | Nancy Klein Maguire |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Year published | 2006-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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