The Nun by Denis Diderot

The Nun

Denis Diderot with Russell Goulbourne (Translator)

189 pages paperback 1796

61 editions

fiction classics reflective medium-paced
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Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight i...

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