An edition of The Spire (1964)

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An edition of The Spire (1964)

The spire

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Told in a stream-of-consciousness narrative, this is a story of obsession. Against the advice of his builder, the Dean of Salisbury Cathedral, slowly dying from tuberculosis, plans the construction of a towering spire atop the cathedral as the culmination of his life’s work but becomes increasingly deranged as the construction faces constant problems due to the sheer grandiosity of the work.

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Language
English
Pages
223

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Previews available in: Spanish English

Subjects

Fiction, Design and construction, Cathedrals, Middle Ages, Fiction in English, Fiction, historical, Fiction, general, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, religious, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological, English literature

Places

Salisbury (England)

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Cover of: The Spire
The Spire
April 7, 2005, Faber and Faber
Paperback - New Ed edition
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Cover of: Spire
Spire
July 1996, Faber Faber Inc
Hardcover in Spanish - New Impression edition
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Cover of: The Spire
The Spire
March 1984, Harvest Books
in English
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Cover of: The spire
The spire: a novel
1971, Faber and Faber Ltd
in English - Educational ed / with an introduction and notes by David B. Gray.
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Cover of: The spire.
The spire.
1964, Harcourt, Brace & World
in English - [1st American ed.]
Cover of: The spire
The spire
1964, Faber and Faber
in English

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/14
Library of Congress
PR6013.O35 S65 1964b

The Physical Object

Pagination
223 p. ;
Number of pages
223

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4447819M
Internet Archive
spire0000gold
LCCN
79109894
Library Thing
68915

Source records

Scriblio MARC record
Ithaca College Library MARC record
OpenLibraries-Trent-MARCs record
Internet Archive item record
Library of Congress MARC record

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He was laughing, chin up, and shaking his head.
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