The Nun

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The Nun
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Literature

The Nun

Denis Diderot
Edition year 1972
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Charles Mozley
Translator Leonard Tancock
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 168
Dimensions 23.7 × 14.8 cm

Edition details

The Nun, by Denis Diderot. Translated and introduced by Leonard Tancock. Six two-colour lithographs by Charles Mozley. Quarter-bound in black cloth with paper covers printed with a black and gold design. Black endpapers. Page tops stained black. Pale green slipcase. 168pp. 23.7x14.8cm.

About the book

Denis Diderot's The Nun tells the story of Suzanne Simonin, a young woman forced by her family to enter a convent despite having no religious vocation. Her attempts to resist confinement expose her to authoritarian superiors, psychological pressure and the abuses possible within closed institutions. Written during the French Enlightenment, the novel is both an emotionally intense narrative and a critique of coercion, religious authority and the denial of individual freedom.

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