- Fiction, History, Brother Cadfael, mystery & detection
Cadfael attends to a brother beaten and left for dead, and searches for missing siblings and their nun escort. In the meantime, a band of marauders pillages the countryside.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Edith Pargeter
- First published
- 1985
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Recorded Books - Library Edition, Heyne
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781497671225
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 9 have read it and 15 want to.
“It was early in November of 1139 that the tide of civil war, lately so sluggish and inactive, rose suddenly to sweep over the city of Worcester, wash away half its livestock, property and women, and send all those of its inhabitants who could get away in time scurrying for their lives northwards away from the marauders, to burrow into hiding wherever there was manor or priory, walled town or castle strong enough to afford them shelter.”
Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her pen name Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics. She is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
A Morbid Taste for Bones 197789% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
The Leper of Saint Giles 198188% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Dark fire 200187% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Sword Song 200787% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
The Republic of Pirates 200786% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
The Widows of Malabar Hill 201886% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
Both classical in form, earnest, grave.
Dreamer's pool 201485% alikeBoth classical in form, earnest, grave.
The Tale of Zatoichi 196289% alikeFilm · Both classical in form, earnest, grave.
A Dream of Splendor 202285% alikeTelevision · Both classical in form, earnest, grave.