World Literature Classics Series: The Nun

Author: Denis Diderot
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Susan is an illegitimate daughter, abandoned by her parents and sent to a girls' convent. In the convent, filled with hypocrisy, cruelty, madness, homosexuality, and psychopathy, the beautiful and intelligent girl's mind and body suffer unimaginable torment. The entire book is filled with a of blood and tears, moving readers to tears (the author also wrote this novel while crying). As the author said, "I do not think that future revelations about convents will be able to write a more terrible satire than this."