<p>From the moment she walks from court having been charged with attempting to poison her husband, to her banishment, escape to Paris, and final years of solitude and waiting, the life of Thérèse Desqueyroux is passionate and tortured. The victim of a hostile fate, Thérèse, as Mauriac said of her ‘belongs to that class of human beings … for whom night can end only when life itself ends. All that is asked of them is that they should not resign themselves to night’s darkness.’ Thérèse’s moving and powerful story affirms the vitality of the human spirit, making her an unforgettable heroine.</p>

Therese

François Mauriac

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Book jacket/back: Francois Mauriac-who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952-is famous for his subtle character portraits of the French rural classes and for depicting their struggles, aspirations and traditions. The Woman of the Pharisees-one of Mauriac's most accomplished novels-is a penetrating evocation of the moral and religious values of a Bordeaux community. In Brigitte, we see how the ideals of love and companionship are stifled in the presence of a self-righteous woman whose austere religious principals lead her to interfere-disasterously-in the lives of others. One by one the unwitting victims fall prey to the bleakness of her "perfection." A conscientious schoolteacher, a saintly priest, her husband and stepdaughter and an innocent schoolboy are all confronted with tragedy and upheaval. But the author's extraordinary gift for psychological insight goes on to show how redeeeming features inevitably surface from disaster. The unfolding drama is seen through the discerning eye of a young Louis-Brigitte's stepson-whose point of view is skillfully blended into the mature and understanding adult he later becomes.

The Woman of the Pharisees

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

Le Noeud De Viperes

Literary

Harrap

Frontenac Mystery (French Edition)

George G.Harrap & Co.,Ltd

Knot of Vipers (French Edition)

Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers like new. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear.

A Mauriac Reader

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Mauriac, Francois; Tr. By Gerard Hopkins, Memoires Interieurs

Memoires Interieurs

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A portrait of a sensitive, intelligent woman who refuses to be vanquished by the tragedies in her life

Thérèse: A Portrait in Four Parts

Frontenac Mystery

Eyre & Spottiswoode

A Woman of the Pharisees

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