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Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Iris Murdoch; Karen Armstrong is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) about?
A dazzling meditation on love and honor, greed and generosity, passion and death, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ. A fascinating array of men and women hover in urgent orbit around them: the "Count," a lonely Pole obsessively reliving his émigré father's patriotic anguish; Tim Reede, a seedy yet appealing artist, and Daisy, his mistress; the manipulative Mrs. Mount; and many other magically drawn characters moving between desire and obligation, guilt and joy. This edition of Nuns and Soldiers includes a new introduction by renowned religious historian Karen Armstrong.
Who reads Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Iris Murdoch; Karen Armstrong
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101494134
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, History
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (96 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Nuns and Soldiers (2017)
- 100 Great Fantasy Short, Short Stories (2012)
- Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1981)
- Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (1980)
- Монахини и солдаты (2009)
- Nuns and Soldiers (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (2002)
- Nuns and Soldiers (1981)
- Nuns and Soldiers (1980)
- Monakhini I Soldaty (2009)
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