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Fran_ois Mauriac's masterpiece and one of the greatest Catholic novels, ThZr_se Desqueyroux is the haunting story of an unhappily married young woman whose desperation drives her to thoughts of murder.

Fran_ois Mauriac, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in literature, is one of the most prominent Catholic novelists of the modern era, yet in the English speaking world he is known primarily for only one novel, 1927's ThZr_se Desqueyroux. In this new translation of two other seminal works by Mauriac, the 1930 novel What Was Lost and its theoretical basis, the 1929 essay God and Mammon, Raymond N. MacKenzie re-introduces Mauriac to the English spea...

Un soir, dans un bar à jazz de la rue Duphot, Raymond Courrèges retrouve par hasard Maria Cross, une femme entretenue à laquelle, adolescent, il a témoigné une passion ardente et maladroite, qu'elle a repoussée. Dix-sept ans plus tard, ce célibataire, livré à une vie d'ennui et de plaisirs faciles, songe encore à prendre sa revanche sur l'humiliation.Mais dans les souvenirs de Raymond, que le visage de Maria fait ressurgir, nous découvrons bi...

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The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac. Mauriac, François 1885-1970, French writer. Mauriac achieved success in 1922 and 1923 with Le Baiser au lépreux and Genitrix (tr. of both in The Family, 1930). Generally set in or near his native Bordeaux, his novels are imbued with his profound, though nonconformist, Roman Catholicism. His characters exist in a tortured u...

France's great Catholic author and Nobel Prize winner unfolds his thoughts on a variety of topics in a series of letters written to such men as Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Pierre Schaeffer and Jacques Rivière. Readers of "Proust's Way", "Men I Hold Great" and "The Stumbling Block" will find intense interest in Mauriac's reflections on the death of Georges Bernanos, the Claudel-Gide correspondence and the Routier youth movement.

Margaret of Cortona was an Italian penitent of the Third Order of St. Francis. She was born in Laviano, near Perugia, and died in Cortona. She was canonized in 1728. She is the patron saint of the falsely accused, hoboes, homeless, insane, orphaned, mentally ill, midwives, penitents, single mothers, reformed prostitutes, third children, tramps. Saint Margaret of Cortona aroused Mauriac's interest because very little is known about her in Franc...

Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse, Therese looks back over the marriage that brought her nothing but stifling darkness, and wonders, has she really escaped punishment or is it only just about to begin?

Excerpt from Le Baiser au LépreuxLa ¿amme, Cadette vaquait à ses sauces sans prêter au maître plus d'attention qu'aux jam bons des solives. Lui, au contraire, observait la vieille paysanne, admirant que, née sous Louis - Philippe, des révolutions, des guerres, de tant d'histoire, elle n'eût rien connu, hors le cochon qu'elle nourrissait et de qui la mort, 'a chaque Noël, humectait de chiches larmes ses yeux chassieux.About the PublisherForgott...

Excerpt from What I Believe: Translated and With an Introduction by Wallace Fowlie To the younger French reader today, M. Mauriac is better known as a journalist, as an academician, and even as a polemicist than as a novelist. Even ten years ago, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1952, Mauriac was looked upon as a weekly adviser to the French, as a chronicler and critic of social and political and religious problems in hi...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

François Mauriac ci presenta un Gesù lontano da qualsiasi tipo di intellettualismo o storicismo e invece vicinissimo alla vita e all'umanità ferita dell'uomo. Il racconto si snoda veloce e fedele lungo il percorso segnato dagli appunti evangelici, cogliendo l'umanità e la divinità di Gesù attraverso le pieghe e gli istanti degli incontri e dei rapporti che egli intraprese nei suoi anni di vita terrena. Come ebbe a rimarcare il cardinale Paul P...

Fran ois Mauriac, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in literature, is one of the most prominent Catholic novelists of the modern era, yet in the English speaking world he is known primarily for only one novel, 1927's Th r se Desqueyroux. In this new translation of two other seminal works by Mauriac, the 1930 novel What Was Lost and its theoretical basis, the 1929 essay God and Mammon, Raymond N. MacKenzie re-introduces Mauriac to the English spea...

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Pour éviter le scandale et protéger les intérêts de leur fille, Bernard Desqueyroux, que sa femme Thérèse a tenté d'empoisonner, dépose de telle sorte qu'elle bénéficie d'un non-lieu.Enfermée dans sa chambre, Thérèse tombe dans une prostration si complète que son mari, effrayé, ne sait plus quelle décision prendre.Doit-il lui rendr...