ALDOUS HUXLEY'S ACCLAIMED AND GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE STRANGEST OCCURENCES IN HISTORY
In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
In this classic work by the legendary Aldous Huxley - a remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece - a compelling historical event is clarified and brought to vivid life.
"Here is a stuff that bizarre historical novels are made of, but it is solidly based on fact and painstaking research... This peak achievement of Huxley's career reveals his sharp skill at characterization, his ability to re-create the smell and flavor of vanished eras... A story that sounds like fiction but isn't." - New York Times
"One of the best books by Aldous Huxley, both as a writer and as a thinker." - The Guardian
ALDOUS HUXLEY'S ACCLAIMED AND GRIPPING ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE STRANGEST OCCURENCES IN HISTORY
In 1632 an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. After a sensational and celebrated trial, the convent's charismatic priest Urban Grandier - accused of spiritually and sexually seducing the nuns in his charge - was convicted of being in league with Satan. Then he was burned at the stake for witchcraft.
In this classic work by the legendary Aldous Huxley - a remarkable true story of religious and sexual obsession considered by many to be his nonfiction masterpiece - a compelling historical event is clarified and brought to vivid life.
"Here is a stuff that bizarre historical novels are made of, but it is solidly based on fact and painstaking research... This peak achievement of Huxley's career reveals his sharp skill at characterization, his ability to re-create the smell and flavor of vanished eras... A story that sounds like fiction but isn't." - New York Times
"One of the best books by Aldous Huxley, both as a writer and as a thinker." - The Guardian