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The Advent of Brother Cadfael

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A Rare Benedictine

The Advent of Brother Cadfael

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These three short stories form a prequel to the Ellis Peters series featuring Brother Cadfael, a medieval monk detective. The first story describes the circumstances around Brother Cadfael’s decision to renounce his former life and become a monk. The second and third stories give Brother Cadfael the opportunity to solve mysteries that occur at Shrewsbury Abbey in the years just preceding the first full-length Brother Cadfael novel.

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Mysterious Press
Language
English
Pages
150

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First Sentence

"Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured."

Table of Contents

Introduction. 3
A Light on the Road to Woodstock. 11
The Price of Light. 57
Eye Witness. 101

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Series
Brother Cadfael (16)
Copyright Date
1979, 1981, 1985

Contributors

Illustrator
Clifford Harper

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
150p
Number of pages
150

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7536618M
Internet Archive
rarebenedictine00pete
ISBN 10
0446400882
ISBN 13
9780446400886
OCLC/WorldCat
24263106
Library Thing
36133
Goodreads
847861

Excerpts

"Jacob of Bouldon was a sturdy, square-set young fellow from the south of the shire, with a round, amiable face, large, candid eyes, and a ready smile. He came with a vellum leaf doubled in one hand, and a pen behind his ear, in every particular the eager, hard-working clerk. A little too open to any man's approaches, perhaps, as his master had said. The lanky, narrow-headed fellow attentive at his side had a very different look about him, weather-beaten, sharp-eyed and drab in hard-wearing dark clothes, with a leather jerkin to bear the rubbing of a heavy pack. The back of the left shoulder was scrubbed pallid and dull from much carrying, and his hat was wide and drooping of brim, to shed off rain. A travelling haberdasher with a few days' business in Shrewsbury, no novelty in the commoners' guest-hall of the abbey. His like were always on the roads, somewhere about the shire.
Page 82-83, added by wideawakeowl2.

It's a somewhat random choice; Ellis Peters is always lyrical. Very British. Very specific. Her characters look evil if they are evil, usually, or at least she gives strong hints. Very traditional in terms of roles of men and women, but rather liberal when it comes to letting the criminal go if there's a chance they will make good.

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