Four Days To Read a Book?

I finally finished it today: The Cloister and the Hearth, by Charles Reade. If your heart can break over and over, this book can do it to it. So I don't recommend it. It's a historical novel, about the mother and father of Erasmus. Who was Erasmus? Who were his mother and father? Ancient history. Courage, comrade! le diable est mort!