Memoirs Of A Nun

by Denis Diderot

2021-01-09 05:40:04

Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history.  Diderot''s ... Read more

Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history.  Diderot''s story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brilliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.

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Book Details

File size8.28 X 5.18 X 0.93 in
Print pages280
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date June 30, 1992
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780679413240
Denis Diderot was born at Langres in eastern France in 1713. After graduating in Paris in 1732, he was nominally a law student for ten years, but was actually leading a precarious bohemian but studio...

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