The Corner That Held Them
- Schrijfster: Sylvia Townsend Warner (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Historische Engelse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgave: 1948
- Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
- Verschijnt: 28 januari 2021
- Omvang: 353 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback
Recensie en waardering voor The Corner That Held Them
- “One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty.” (Sarah Waters)
- “As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy.” (George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement)
- “Spellbinding … One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page.” (Sunday Times)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1948 van Sylvia Townsend Warner
The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women.