CLERKENWELL TALES, THE（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history,
a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The
Canterbury Tales” “to recreate the city’s 14th century religious
and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born
below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting the death of King Richard
II and the demise of the Church. Her visions can be dismissed as
madness, until she accurately foretells a series of terrorist
explosions. What is the role of the apocalyptic Predestined Men?
And the clandestine Dominus? And what powers, ultimately, will
prevail? In Peter Ackroyd’s deft and suprising narrative, The
Miller, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath and other characters from
Canterbury Tales pursue these mysteries through a pungently vivid
medieval London.

　　Peter Ackroyd lives in London. He is the author of biographies
of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More and of the bestselling London:
The Biography. His most recent book is Albion: The Origins of the
English Imagination.–From the Hardcover edition.

List of Characters
The Prioress’s Tale
The Friar’s Tale
The Merchant’s Tale
The Clerk’s Tale
The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale
The Franklin’s Tale
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
The Knight’s Tale
The Reeve’s Tale
The Physician’s Tale
The Monk’s Tale
The Manciple’s Tale
The Summoner’s Tale
The Miller’s Tale
The Wife of Bath’s Tale
The Cook’s Tale
The Squire’s Tale
The Man of Law’s Tale
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Shipman’s Tale
The Parson’s Tale
The Second Nun’s Tale
The Author’s Tale