Doomsday Book: A NovelConnie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 19 |
Section 3 | 35 |
Section 4 | 48 |
Section 5 | 63 |
Section 6 | 78 |
Section 7 | 87 |
Section 8 | 111 |
Section 19 | 317 |
Section 20 | 334 |
Section 21 | 356 |
Section 22 | 370 |
Section 23 | 389 |
Section 24 | 406 |
Section 25 | 417 |
Section 26 | 436 |
Section 9 | 129 |
Section 10 | 148 |
Section 11 | 165 |
Section 12 | 185 |
Section 13 | 205 |
Section 14 | 226 |
Section 15 | 242 |
Section 16 | 260 |
Section 17 | 280 |
Section 18 | 301 |
Section 27 | 452 |
Section 28 | 468 |
Section 29 | 482 |
Section 30 | 494 |
Section 31 | 512 |
Section 32 | 528 |
Section 33 | 545 |
Section 34 | 560 |
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