Clerkenwell Tales

Name: Clerkenwell Tales
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780749386306
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Автор: Peter Ackroyd

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Vintage Publishing

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The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Peter Ackroyd

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2004

страници

224

EAN

9780749386306

ISBN

0749386304

Enbook ID

04138626

Издател

Vintage Publishing

Теглоt

164

Размери

130 x 197 x 15

Пълно описание

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 tool of earthly powers? This is a story of adventure and suspense set in the late medieval world. As in many of Peter Ackroyd's novels the distant past is no longer a foreign country but something alarmingly close and authentic. As one critic has put it, 'he is our age's greatest London imagination'.

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