The Corner That Held Them - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (Introduction by)Publish date:2019-09-10Pages:424
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681373874ISBN-10:1681373874UPC:9781681373874Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Women, ReligiousBook Topic:MedievalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCARMR21Q1
The Corner That Held Them
A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781681373874ISBN-10:1681373874UPC:9781681373874Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Women, ReligiousBook Topic:MedievalSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCARMR21Q1
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist, as well as an authority on early English music and a member of the Communist Party. Her first novel, Lolly Willowes (available from NYRB Classics), appeared in 1926 and was the first ever Book-of-the-Month Club selection. Over the course of her long career, Warner published six more novels, seven books of poetry, a...
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