A candle at dusk
By: [by] E. M. Almedingen; illustrated by Doreen Roberts.
Contributors: Roberts, Doreen, illus.
Publisher: Oxford  U.P.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Franks -- History -- To 768 -- Fiction.
Description: In spite of his recent betrothal and his fear of a Saracen invasion, an eighth-century Frankish boy obtains his father's skeptical permission to live for a time at the neighboring abbey in order to learn to read.