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The Abyss
In sixteenth-century Europe, two cousins choose radically different roads into ambition, danger and thought.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
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About The Abyss
The Abyss opens in northern France in the second quarter of the sixteenth century and follows two cousins: Henry Maximilian, who leaves to become a soldier and poet, and Zeno, who abandons seminary life to pursue knowledge as an alchemist-philosopher.
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- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- suicide
- execution
- religious persecution
- war
- death
- infanticide
- sexual content
