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The corner that held them
- Title
- The corner that held them / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; introduction by Claire Harman.
- Author
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- ©1988
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harman, Claire
- Description
- xiii, 399 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "To become a nun in the fourteenth century was often a business transaction rather than a spiritual calling; it is small wonder, then, that the inhabitants of the Benedictine convent of Oby are prey to worldly ambitions, frustrations, pleasures and jealousies. An outbreak of the Black Death the collapse of the convent spire and a disappearance are the dramas that strike this cloistered community, which is brought vividly to life in Sylvia Townsend Warner's masterpiece"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books Classics
- Uniform Title
- New York Review Books classics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2593
- ISBN
- 9781681373874
- 1681373874
- 9781681373881 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019017347
- OCLC
- 1079846177
- Author
- Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978, author.
- Title
- The corner that held them / Sylvia Townsend Warner ; introduction by Claire Harman.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©1988
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books ClassicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Chronological Term
- 1300-1399
- Added Author
- Harman, Claire, writer of introduction.
- Other Editions:
- Reproduction of (manifestation): Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978 Corner that held them London : Virago Press, 1988.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2593