The Pardoner’s Tale (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: John Wain
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: Wales and an English cathedral town
- Principal Characters: Giles Hermitage, Helen Chichester-Redfern, Diana Chichester-Redfern, Gus Howkins, Julia Delmer
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Africa or Africans, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Art or artists, Writing, Divorce, Single people, Spain or Spanish people, Great Britain
- Locales: Africa, Spain, Bu-Tata, Uranga, Africa, Tangier, Morocco, Uranga, Africa
The Novel
The Pardoner’s Tale is composed of two stories: a first-person tale about Gus Howkins, an aging Londoner contemplating divorce, and a third-person narration (the controlling narrative) about Giles Hermitage, an established English novelist, unmarried, who becomes involved with the Chichester-Redferns, a woman and her daughter, while he is working on the story of Gus.
The narrative begins with the character that Giles creates assembling his folding-canoe at an estuary on the coast of Wales. Gus, in his forties, has been separated for four months from...
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