About this title: In 1934, Margery Kempe's amazing book was discovered 400 years after it was written. Dame Margery's is the first known autobiography in English, and details the spiritual awakening of a highly unusual medieval woman: wife, mother of 14, world traveler, and mystic.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780140432510ISBN:0140432515
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover; Good condition; Printed Text is VG but there are some pen marks on front flyleaf page; some shelfwear; (shelf G43); 332p; "In this book, Margery Kempe (1373-1440) has left us the earliest known autobiography of an English person"; read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine crease, minor extremity wear, back wrapper crease, light rubbing. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Audience: General/trade. Margery Kempe has bequeathed the earliest known autobiography of an English person and one of the most engaging of Christian 'Lives'. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Image Books, Many
Date Published: 1998
Description: Fine. No Jacket. Trade Paperback. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. The book has very little shelf wear............The book may have minor flaws that have went unnoticed.. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780393976397ISBN:0393976394
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
"I am enjoying this book (I'm not reading the edition pictured here, but an older one). Margery Kempe lived from the late 1300's to the mid 1400's or thereabouts. She was from a comfortable, but not wealthy, middle class family, married, had 14 children, then decided to live a chaste life as a religious pilgrim. She traveled to the Holy Land (as did I) and Rome (ditto) and Santiago de Compostella (next on my list). She did remarkable things for her era and her religious stigmata (for lack of a better word) were her excessive weeping and crying out loud. She irritated many people. The book, dictated by her because she couldn't read or write, is alternately historically interesting and hysterically funny. Although I find many parallels between her life and mine, I don't plan on living chaste anytime soon."
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