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The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Ambrose Bierce
3.6/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Pages
80
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Heritage Press
Release
May 05, 1967
ISBN
1199128546
ISBN 13
9781199128546

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Ambrose Bierce
3.6/5 ( ratings)
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.
Language
English
Pages
80
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Heritage Press
Release
May 05, 1967
ISBN
1199128546
ISBN 13
9781199128546

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