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The Nun (Oxford World's Classics)
The Nun - Oxford World's Classics
Author: Denis Diderot
Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succes de scandale ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199555246
ISBN-10: 0199555249
Publication Date: 10/15/2008
Pages: 234
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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