Author: BIERCE, AMBROSE (1842-1914). CIRY, MICHAEL (ILLUS.)
Title: The monk and the hangman's daughter / Ambrose Bierce / Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav adolf Danziger.
Description: Norwalk. Conn: Heritage Press (1967) 1967. Heritage Press Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth.The Classic Heritage Press library design with Heritage Press Sandglass Leaflet loosely inserted No. viii: 33. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 80 pages; Physical desc. : 80 p. Ill.col.27 cm. Summary: On arriving at a rural monastery. the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl. Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of the local hangman. but Ambrosius is drawn into a dangerous sympathy with her. and in defiance of the community and his superiors. he starts spending time alone with her. But when her virtue is corrupted by an impetuous young man. the stage is set for a battle between heart. mind. body. spirit. the sins of the past and redemption. Allegedly a rewriting from a lost German original. Ambrose Bierce's 1892 novel reads as a seamless. almost folktale-like masterpiece. Subject: Monks - Fiction.Weight in Kg appr.:

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