![]() ![]() Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. His life was one of despair and joy, the sacred and the profane, deep love and pain, and this book is filled with such infectious passion and fascinating detail that it shines like its subject. ‘Katherine Rundell makes Donne come alive as a remarkable and extraordinary and almost boundless human being. ![]() ![]() it is fantastic to have this most elusive and mysterious of men brought out into the light, for all to see. Faber is excited to offer reading groups 10 advanced proof copies of Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell’s phenomenal Sunday Times bestselling and Bailie Gifford Prize winning biography of John Donne that will sweep you off your feet and transport you into the world of Elizabethan London. ![]()
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