The Clerkenwell Tales
of Peter Ackroyd
Description
From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London's history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city's 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail?In Peter Ackroyd's deft and suprising narrative, The Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath and other characters from Canterbury Tales pursue these mysteries through a pungently vivid medieval London.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 213 pages
- Publisher Anchor Books
- Publication Date November 8th 2005
- First Publication 11/06/03
- Language English
- ISBN 9781400075959
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['United Kingdom']
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