The Clerkenwell Tales

The Clerkenwell Tales
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Publisher : Anchor
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780307276926
ISBN-13 : 0307276929
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Book Synopsis The Clerkenwell Tales by : Peter Ackroyd

Download or read book The Clerkenwell Tales written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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