The Clerkenwell Tales (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400075959)

From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London's history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city's 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men? And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will prevail?In Peter Ackroyd's deft and suprising narrative, The Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath and other characters from Canterbury Tales pursue these mysteries through a pungently vivid medieval London.

Author: Peter Ackroyd
ISBN-10: 1400075955
ISBN-13: 9781400075959
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2005
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.30w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2006 pg. 14