The Cloister and the Hearth

by Charles Reade · 1861

A young couple are separated across fifteenth-century Europe on the eve of the parents of Erasmus. Reade's richly researched historical novel.

Books mentioned in The Cloister and the Hearth (3)

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The Dream of Poliphilo) by Francesco Colonna: “I am writing a book--heart and soul in it--'The Dream of Polifilo,' the man of many arts.”
• As You Like It by William Shakespeare: “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard." --As You Like It.”
• Cyropaedia by Xenophon: “in the library of the Vatican, and had set Poggio to translate Diodorus Siculus and Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Laurentius Valla to translate Herodotus and Thucydides, Theodore Gaza, Theophrastus; George of Trebizond, Eusebius, and certain treatises of Plato, etc.”

Books that mention The Cloister and the Hearth (2)

• Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun: “The book is a harmless picaresque, a _geste_ of innocent rogue-errantry; its place is with _Lavengro_ and _The Cloister and the Hearth_, in that ancient, endless order of tales which link up age with age and land with land in the unaltering, unfrontiered fellowship of the road that kept the spirit…”
• The Four Million by O. Henry: “She got out “The Cloister and the Hearth,” the best non-selling book of the month”