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      The Abbess of Crewe

      by Muriel Spark
      Published
      Nov 1974
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      116
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      An election is held at the abbey of Crewe and the new lady abbess takes up her high office with implacable serenity.

      "The short dirk in the hands of Muriel Spark has always been a deadly weapon," said The New York Times, and "never more so than in The Abbess of Crewe." An elegant little fable about intrigue, corruption, and electronic surveillance, The Abbess of Crewe is set in an English Benedictine convent. Steely and silky Abbess Alexandra (whose aristocratic tastes run to pâté, fine wine, English poetry, and carpets of "amorous green") has bugged the convent, and rigged her election. But the cat gets out of the bag, and—plunged into scandal—the serene Abbess faces a Vatican inquiry.

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      Aug 1977 Penguin ISBN13 9780140040746 ISBN10 0140040749
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      Feb 1984 Penguin ISBN13 9780399509520 ISBN10 0399509526
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      Jun 1995 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN13 9780811212960 ISBN10 0811212963
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      First Edition Nov 1974 Viking ISBN13 9780670100293 ISBN10 0670100293
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      Jan 1974 MacMillan ISBN13 9780333177006 ISBN10 0333177002
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      Jun 2018 Birlinn General ISBN13 9781846974373 ISBN10 1846974372
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      May 1995 New Directions ISBN10 B00BCE2VZA
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      Feb 2013 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN13 9780811221559 ISBN10 0811221555
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