'Then he saw the barrel of a gun aimed dead on target - not at him, as he might have expected, but at the clergyman's back.'
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic novel follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption.
A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.
- ISBN10 0241259169
- ISBN13 9780241259160
- Publish Date 26 May 2016 (first published 30 August 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780241259160