Super-Infinite

Name: Super-Infinite
Brand: Faber & Faber
SKU: 9780571345922
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The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

By Katherine Rundell

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Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell is a captivating biography of the poet John Donne. The book vividly explores his complex life, delving into his work, relationships, and the turbulent times in which he lived. Richly detailed, it brings to life the wit and passion of one of literature's most intriguing figures.
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You might like this book if you are captivated by intricate histories and enjoy delving into the life of a remarkable poet. This biography unravels the layers of an extraordinary figure, offering both rigorous scholarship and engaging storytelling that brings to life the vibrant world of Elizabethan England.

Super-Infinite

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022.

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022, now in paperback: a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.

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A sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death, shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and now in paperback.

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022

A Sunday Times top ten bestseller

'Masterly.' - Observer

'Wonderful, joyous.' - Maggie O'Farrell

'Frankly brilliant.' - Sunday Times

'Unmissable.' - Simon Jenkins

'Every page sparkles.' - Claire Tomalin

'A triumph.' - Matt Haig

'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' - Rose Tremain

John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing.

He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language.

In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows 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.

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Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell is praised for being fascinating and incisive, with a spellbinding narrative. It is described as a wonderful and joyous work that brings a mysterious figure into the light with fierce, interrogative intelligence.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571345922

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 292g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than thirty languages and have won 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 has written for, among others, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books and the New York Times, largely about books, though sometimes about animals, night climbing and tightrope walking.