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Super Infinite: The Transformations Of John DonneStock informationGeneral Fields
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Local Description Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. From a standout scholar, a biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death. In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed ‘act of evangelism’, showing us the many sides of Donne’s extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times – unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. 'Every page sparkles.’ Claire Tomalin ‘Crackling with gusto and sympathetic intelligence’ Andrew Motion ‘A triumph.’ Matt Haig ‘A wonderful, joyous piece of work.’ Maggie O’Farrell ‘Blazingly intelligent and witty’ Telegraph ‘Frankly brilliant’ Sunday Times 'To read Donne is to grapple with a vision of the eternal that is startlingly reinvented in the here and now, and Rundell captures this vision alive in all its power, eloquence and strangeness.' —Guardian Author Biography: Katherine Rundell grew up in London, Zimbabwe and Belgium. She is the youngest female scholar to be made a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her award-winning and bestselling books for children have been translated into thirty languages and have multiple awards. Rundell is also the author of a book for adults Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old And Wise. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Description
AwardsWinner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction
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