A SELECTED LIST OF FICTION
BY RENÉ BAZIN
THE NUN
Fifth Edition
With Frontispiece in Photogravure by Harold Copping
The Daily Telegraph: “It is difficult to speak in measured terms of this book.... A consummate artist, his work eats into the heart and lives in the memory as do but few books from modern authors.”
The Daily Mail: “‘The Nun’ is a novel of great beauty and distinction.”
The Daily Chronicle: “Told with a power and simplicity that are beyond all words of praise.... Beautiful, extremely beautiful.”
The Standard: “Nothing can be more tender, more delicate, more sensitively artistic.”
The Morning Post: “The book is full of poignant moments ... a noble and ennobling study in human idealism.”
The Westminster Gazette: “A book which no one who reads it will ever forget.”
The Evening Standard: “We have discovered in it an absorbing interest—the interest which comes of humanity skilfully moulded by art, of essential truth and fine perception.... A very powerful piece of work.”
The Saturday Review: “It is a pitiful and poignant story, rich in real drama and arresting by its fidelity to the truths of life.”
The Daily Graphic: “A master-work of fiction.”