Loamhedge, the deserted Abbey, forgotten for countless seasons. What secrets do its ruins hold?
Martha Braebuck, a young haremaid, wheelchair-bound since infancy, wonders about a mysterious old poem relating to the ancient Abbey. Could it really be the key to her cure? But how could she get to this Loamhedge? As fate has it, two old warriors, travellers returning to Redwall Abbey, are inspired by the spirit of Martin the Warrior to quest for the ancient place - and three young rebels are determined to go with them.
As the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey bask in the glorious Summer of the Late Rose, all is quiet and peaceful. But things are not as they seem. Cluny the Scourge--the evil one-eyed rat warlord, is ell-bent on destroying the tranquility as he prepares to fight a bloody battle for the ownership of Redwall. This dazzling story in the Redwall series is packed with all the wit, wisdom, humor, and blood-curdling adventure of the other books in the collection, but has the added bonus of taking the reader right back to the heart and soul of Redwall Abbey and the characters who live there.
Henry VII's Lady chapel at Westminster Abbey was arguably the last great architectural masterpiece of the Middle Ages with many of its components, such as its vaulted ceiling and glass screen windows, singled out for particular praise during the last 500 years. During the 1990s the chapel was restored providing an unprecedented opportunity for survey and analysis, resulting in this important collection of sixteen specialist contributions.
How does one know coming good from coming ill? There are those times in life when one welcomes any change, believing that nothing can be such ashes in the mouth, such dryness of days as the never altering flood of time in a small community where the outside world lies ever beyond the gates locked and barred against all change. From the bell tower of Abbey Norstead – and how many years had sped since a bell had pealed from there? – one could see the unending rippling of the Dales, on and on to the blue-gray of Fast Ridge.
Like many Italian authors, Eco shows a joy in experimenting with form and meaning. Ostensibly a murder mystery, this book is really a story about stories, a book about puzzles and truth and conspiracies. Also, our narrator, arrives at an abbey with his master, William of Baskerville, to find that a monk has been killed, seemingly falling from the upper windows of the library. As the newcomers investigate the death, the secrets of the abbey are slowly revealed to them. As more deaths occur, they stand on the edge of a great conspiracy. Or do they? A lyrical, intelligent reinvention of the detective novel.
