The Nun by Denis Diderot & Russell Goulbourne

The Nun

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  • Genre Classics
  • Publisher OUP Oxford
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  • Size 6.39 MB
  • Length 240 Pages

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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. This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material.

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