Research Catalog
The Abbess of Crewe
- Title
- The Abbess of Crewe / Muriel Spark.
- Author
- Spark, Muriel
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995.
- ©1974
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- Description
- 106 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- An election is held at the abbey of Crewe and the new lady abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity. "The short dirk in the hands of Muriel Spark has always been a deadly weapon," said The New York Times, and "never more so than in The Abbess of Crewe." An elegant little fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, The Abbess of Crewe is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steely and silky Abbess Alexandra (whose aristocratic tastes run to pâté, fine wine, English poetry, and carpets of "amorous green") has bugged the convent, and rigged her election. But the cat gets out of the bag, and--plunged into scandal--the serene Abbess faces a Vatican inquiry.
- Series Statement
- NDP805
- New Directions bibelot
- Uniform Title
- New Directions paperbook ; 805.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction.
- Satirical literature.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "The Abbess of Crewe was originally published in the U.S.A. by The Viking Press, 1974"--Title page verso.
- "A New Directions bibelot -- title page.
- "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
- Indexed In (note)
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Binding (note)
- bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Semadar Megged.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-1774
- ISBN
- 0811212963
- 9780811212960
- LCCN
- 95001628
- OCLC
- 31969079
- Author
- Spark, Muriel, author.
- Title
- The Abbess of Crewe / Muriel Spark.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1995.
- Copyright Date
- ©1974
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- NDP805New Directions bibelotNew Directions paperbook ; 805.
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 144.
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-1774 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Semadar Megged. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-1774 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Added Author
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Megged, Semadar, cover designer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-1774