The Abbess of Castro by Stendhal

The Abbess of Castro

Stendhal

128 pages first pub 1832 (editions)

fiction classics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Brigands, convents under siege, a prince who’d do Machiavelli proud…This adventurous novella from a writer famous for far longer works is a singular take on love and war in Renaissance Italy.Claiming to be translating from sixteenth-century manusc...

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