The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Published 1871
526 pages
Free monastery & convent books
Books set in monasteries and convents enter communities apart from the world. Bells, silence, routine and faith shape the days, and human passions find their way in all the same. Historical mysteries and contemplative novels both make good use of the cloister. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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Chronicle of the conquest of Granada
Washington Irving
Published 1882
694 pages
A History of the Royal Foundation of Christ's Hospital, with an Account of the Plan of Education, the Internal Economy of the Institution, and Memoirs of Eminent Blues
William Trollope
Published 1834
546 pages
The Somerset Religious Houses
William Arthur Jobson Archbold
Published 1892
432 pages
Archæological and Historical Collections Relating to Ayrshire & Galloway
Ayrshire and Galloway Archaeological Association
1878 · 1884 edition
324 pages
The Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida
Stephen W. Williams
Published 1889
508 pages
The History of the Ancient Parish of Waltham Abbey, Or Holy Cross
William Winters
Published 1888
226 pages
Contributions to a History of the Cistercian Houses of Devon
Joshua Brooking Rowe
Published 1878
240 pages
Extracts from the Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham, from the Original Mss. ...
Durham Cathedral, Joseph Thomas Fowler
Published 1899
336 pages
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
Washington Irving
Published 1835
784 pages
Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland
Ingulf
Published 1893
608 pages
Monasticon Anglicanum
William Dugdale
1819 · 1846 edition
682 pages
Cloister Life in the Days of Coeur de Lion
Herbert Railton, Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, A. Quinton
Published 1892
232 pages
Memorials of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains
John Richard Walbran, James Raine (historien).)
1862 · 1878 edition
322 pages
Compotus Rolls of the Obedientiaries of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester ...
Winchester Cathedral, Priory of St. Swithun (Winchester, Hampshire)
Published 1892
636 pages
Monasticon Anglicanum
Roger Dodsworth, John Stevens, William Dugdale
Published 1817
892 pages
The Publications of the Surtees Society
Published 1898
304 pages
On the Abbey of S. Edmund at Bury
Montague Rhodes James
Published 1895
242 pages
Monasticon Anglicanum
Published 1846
294 pages
Latin Monasticism in Norman Sicily
Lynn White (Jr.), L. T. White, Jr.
Published 1938
360 pages
Monasticon Anglicanum
Published 1846
726 pages
The Publications of the Surtees Society
Published 1899
334 pages
Notitia Monastica: Or, An Account of All the Abbies, Priories, and Houses of Friers Heretofore in England and Wales
Thomas Tanner
Published 1744
852 pages
A history of the castle of Halton and the priory or abbey of Norton, with an account of the barons of Halton, the priors and abbots of Norton
William Beamont
Published 1873
282 pages