The Pardoner’s Tale (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Wain
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: Spain, Tangier, and the imaginary Bu-Tata, in Uranga, Africa
- 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
Characters Discussed
Giles Hermitage, a moderately successful novelist. A stocky, graying bachelor of fifty, he is generally untidy in appearance. For seven years, he has lived contentedly in an English cathedral town, disappearing from life’s problems alternately into his work and into the arms of his mistress, Harriet. When Harriet breaks off their relationship, he realizes how important she is to him, and he is shattered. Only his meeting with a dying woman, Helen Chichester-Redfern, and her daughter, Dinah Redfern, who becomes his mistress, gives him interest in living....
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