The Door in the Wall Overview

Marguerite De Angeli
This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Door in the Wall.

The Door in the Wall Overview

Marguerite De Angeli
This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Door in the Wall.
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The Door in the Wall provides an excellent introduction to medieval England.

Angeli's portrayal of life in the fourteenth-century—the very time when Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, was a boy—is quite authentic. Angeli presents a realistic picture of the larger crosscurrents of life in medieval England, and she succeeds in creating a believable context for her story through the insertion of carefully selected details. The novel takes in the sights, sounds, and smells of a bustling medieval city and contrasts them with the calm serenity of a monastic community; it describes the nature of travel on the highways and byways of medieval England and the ever-present dangers there for the unwary traveler; and it depicts the excitements and inconveniences of living in a medieval castle under constant threat of attack.

More important than the novel's depiction of the English Middle Ages, however...

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