The nun [Audiobook] download free by Denis Diderot
- Listen audiobook: The nun
- Author: Denis Diderot
- Release date: 2010/10/27
- Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780199555246
- Rating: 9.92 of 10
- Votes: 793
- Review by: Laura Hardesty
- Review rating: 8.32 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/17
- Duration: 3H2M25S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, WMA, FLAC, WAV, MP3, ATRAC, TTA (compression AZW4, ZIP, LZ, RAR, CAB)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M40S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: You can leave a forest, but you can never leave a cloister; you are free in the forest, but you are a slave in the cloister.'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. A succes de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novelis not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classic Books & Novels, Contemporary Fiction, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800
- Download servers: Dropbox, Mediafire, Uploadable, 4Shared, OneDrive, Hotfile, Google Drive, FileServe, Ivoox, Torrent. Compressed in AZW4, ZIP, LZ, RAR, CAB
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.42 USD
- Dimensions: 127x195x15mm
- Weight: 181g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom
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