The monk and the hangman's daughter
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Barnes & Noble, 2012
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781411464858 MWT15346441, 1411464850 15346441
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This 1892 novella is translated loosely from a German folktale and masterfully retold by Bierce. Set in the Bavarian mountains, it tells the story of a young Franciscan monk who becomes obsessed and eventually tormented by his feelings for a young girl who has been socially ostracized because her father is the local hangman
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