Memoirs of a Nun: Introduction by P. N. Furbank

✍ Scribed by Denis Diderot

• Book ID: 110696614
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780375712821
• ASIN: B00UQEJ47A

✦ Synopsis

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.