WORLDS APART

by Tudor Edwards ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 23, 1958

The author, a journalist and authority on art and architecture, taken the reader on a layman's tour of Europe's outstanding monasteries. Extending from Northern England to Southern Spain, Tudor Edwards examines each monastery in its own terms -- its precepts, its forms, its appearance, and its men. Writing vividly and with understanding, he presents each cloister as a specific universe, and as in all true universes, there are surprises. There is also history here, heroic, tragic, and even comic, as in the account of the little French nuns who manufactured liqueur and perfume with such extraordinary enthusiasm that their cloiter had to be shut down. An unusually sensitive man Edwards, without sacrificing journalist accuracy, recreates the highly sensual aspects of Europe's great monasteries, and with great tact, integrates his own reactions, as a layman, to the restrictions which such life imposes on man. No study of European history is complete without an insight into its monastic orders, and Worlds Apart offers pleasure and understanding in civilized and gracious account of Europe's great living monasteries and the men of whom they are the measure.

Pub Date: Oct. 23, 1958

ISBN: 0956154905

Page Count: -

Publisher: Coward McCann

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION