- Fiction, Herbalists, Monks, Brother Cadfael (Fictitious character)
The abbey's celebration of Saint Winifred becomes the locus for duplicitous characters, including Cadfael, associated with the Anarchy, an assassination, and general mischief.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Edith Pargeter
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 271
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, Chivers Press, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- Italian, Swedish, cze, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780446405317
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“They were together in Brother Cadfael’s hut in the herbarium, in the afternoon of the twenty-fifth day of May, and the talk was of high matters of state, of kings and empresses, and the unbalanced fortunes that plagued the irreconcilable contenders for the thrones.”
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.
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