An edition of The devils of Loudun (1952)

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An edition of The devils of Loudun (1952)

The devils of Loudun

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In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Grandier maintained his innocence to the end and four years after his death the nuns were still being subjected to exorcisms to free them from their demonic bondage. Huxley's vivid account of this bizarre tale of religious and sexual obsession transforms our understanding of the medieval world. [GoodReads]

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Publisher
Flamingo
Language
English
Pages
308

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The devils of Loudun
The devils of Loudun
1994, Flamingo
in English
Cover of: The devils of Loudun
The devils of Loudun
1971, Harper & Row, Random House UK
in English
Cover of: The devils of Loudun
The devils of Loudun
1965, Harper & Row
in English - 1st Harper Colophon ed.
Cover of: The devils of Loudun.
The devils of Loudun.
1952, Harper
in English - [1st. ed.

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Edition Notes

First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 1952.

Published in
London
Series
Modern classic

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
271.974044

The Physical Object

Pagination
308p. ;
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17179680M
Internet Archive
devilsofloudun0000huxl_l5h2
ISBN 10
0006547419
Library Thing
310272
Goodreads
6296278

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