The Clerkenwell Tales - Rilegato

Ackroyd, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0385511213 ISBN 13: 9780385511216

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 2004

Riassunto

In 1399 London, with Richard II on the throne of England, Sister Clarice, a member of the convent at Clerkenwell, experiences a series of visions about a dark and dangerous future that reveal a secret plot to overthrown the Church, dethrone Richard, and ignite deadly violence in five different parts of London. 20,000 first printing.

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“The Clerkenwell Tales is a truly extraordinary feat of historical imagination: a slim novel, straining at the seams with a sort of macabre relish, in which disgust and enthusiasm jostle.”
—The Sunday Telegraph

“A gripping thriller which also happens to be wonderfully full of engaging historical detail and conversation-enhancing words like ‘hopharlot.’” —Literary Review

“[The Clerkenwell Tales] is a pacy novel brimming with Ackroyd’s imaginative use of scholarship. This is more than a reworking of earlier material, be it Chaucer’s or his own. Ackroyd is clearly out to impress, and it’s worked.” —The Daily Telegraph

“Historical fiction of the utmost potency.” —The Daily Mail

“Ackroyd’s ‘colour’ is so curious, so rich and so variegated that there is something in almost every sentence to sharpen one’s sense of late 14th-century London as squirmingly alive—and extremely pungent . . . a cunning little intrigue.” —The Spectator

“Ackroyd’s learning is as impressive as his imagination . . . Like Chaucer, Ackroyd sees literature and history as part of the same tradition. —The Observer

“The Clerkenwell Tales is a tour-de-force, full of rich imaginings and strange happenings. It is as finely wrought as an illuminated manuscript.” —The Scotsman

L'autore:

Peter Ackroyd lives in London. He is the author of biographies of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More and of the bestselling London: The Biography. His most recent book is Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0385511213
• ISBN 13: 9780385511216
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 213