The Pilgrim of Hate~Ellis Peters~1984~BCE~First Edition~Very Good to Fine Condition~Vintage~Rare~Free Shipping

The Pilgrim of Hate~Ellis Peters~1984~BCE~First Edition~Very Good to Fine Condition~Vintage~Rare~Free Shipping.

This rare find is in very good to fine condition. Dust cover has some edge wear. The book is in fine condition. No markings or inscriptions. First book club edition. See photos. This vintage find will make an Ellis Peters fan happy. Thanks for your interest!

Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995), also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was an English author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics. She is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern, and especially for her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles.

Pargeter wrote under a number of pseudonyms; it was under the name Ellis Peters that she wrote her later crime stories, especially the highly popular series of Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries, featuring a Benedictine monk at the Abbey in Shrewsbury. That pseudonym was drawn from the name of her brother, Ellis, and a version of the name of the daughter of friends, Petra. Many of the novels were made into films for television. Although she won her first award for a novel written in 1963, her greatest fame and sales came with the Cadfael Chronicles, which began in 1977. At the time of the 19th in the series of 20 novels, sales exceeded 6.5 million. The Cadfael Chronicles drew international attention to Shrewsbury and its history, and greatly increased tourism to the town. In an interview in 1993, she mentioned her own work before the Second World War as a chemist’s assistant, where they prepared many of the compounds they sold. “We used to make bottled medicine that we compounded specially, with ingredients like gentian, rosemary, horehound. You never see that nowadays; those tinctures are never prescribed. They often had bitters of some sort in them, a taste I rather liked. Some of Cadfael’s prescriptions come out of those years.” - From Wikipedia

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