Memoirs of a Nun

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Memoirs of a Nun by Denis Diderot, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Denis Diderot ISBN: 9780375712821
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: March 18, 2015
Imprint: Everyman's Library Language: English
Author: Denis Diderot
ISBN: 9780375712821
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: March 18, 2015
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Language: 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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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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