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Memoirs of a Nun

by Denis Diderot
P. N. Furbank
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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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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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  • Release date: March 18, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780375712821
  • Release date: March 18, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780375712821
  • File size: 2326 KB
  • Release date: March 18, 2015

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Fiction Literature

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English

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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Fiction Literature