The Book of Common Prayer (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$50.21
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
29 December 2012
Summary
An exquisite Deluxe Edition of the Anglican prayer book and literary masterpiece commemorating the 350th anniversary of the 1662 edition, intimately familiar to our most enduring writers.
As essential to the canon as the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare, The Book of Common Prayer has been in daily use for centuries. Originally produced for the Church of England in the sixteenth century by Thomas Cranmer, who was burned at the stake upon the accession to the throne of the ar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143106562 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143106562 |
| Author: | James Wood |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Edition: | De Luxe edition |
| Release Date: | 29 December 2012 |
| Weight: | 566g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions |
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“One of the great, abiding works of English literature … The acute poetry, balanced sonorities, heavy order, and direct intimacy of its prose have achieved permanence, and many of its phrases and sentences are as famous as lines from Shakespeare or the King James Bible.” —James Wood, from the Introduction
About The Author
James Wood
James Wood is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a visiting lecturer at Harvard, and the author of the national bestseller How Fiction Works and the novel The Book Against God. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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