The nun / Denis Diderot ; translated with an introduction and notes by Russell Goulbourne.
The nun / Denis Diderot ; translated with an introduction and notes by Russell Goulbourne.
The nun / Denis Diderot ; translated with an introduction and notes by Russell Goulbourne.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Date
2005.
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N843.5/7
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English
French
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Physical content
xliii, 189 p. ; 20 cm.
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Publisher
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2005.
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Summary
"Denis Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced my 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...
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The nun / Denis Diderot ; translated with an introduction and notes by Russell Goulbourne.
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Oxford world's classics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxvi]-xxxvii).
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Other version (online)
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N843.5/7
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74VKqvEbbKLd
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ISBN
0192804308 (alk. paper)
9780192804303 (alk. paper)
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843.5
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991020206269702626
