A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman

784 pages first pub 1978 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

Description

A "marvelous history"* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years' War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journa...

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Moods

informative 100%
challenging 44%
adventurous 33%
reflective 33%
dark 16%
funny 5%
hopeful 2%
relaxing 2%
sad 2%

Pace

slow 83%
medium 16%

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