The Abyss
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0374516669 / Publisher: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 1981
Condemned by the authorities, a Flemish physician and philosopher of the sixteenth-century journeys through Europe on a quest for scientific knowledge and religious truth
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Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.
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