Read this some time ago and enjoyed it. ( )

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i was surprised I liked this book but I did. It was interesting to read about a life style so severe that the rich used to pawn off unwed daughters. ( )

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Diderot is best known for his Encyclopedie and his philosophical arguments. This book is about a willful young girl who was placed in a nunnery. This story was originally a series of letters written by Diderot to the Marquis de Croismare, trying to get him to return to Paris from Normandy to help said convent escapee. Supposedly the novel was based on a true story. Suzanne, the young nun, is the narrator and quite unreliable. The entire novel is written from her viewpoint. She is represented as naive and innocent; which she is not. Too much time was spent on a Mother Superior/Suzanne lesbian liason, which to me, detracted from what could have been a better than average story. The essay that followed was mega-boring. 233 pages ( )