The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Teresa Of Avila

 
9780140440737: The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself (Penguin Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140440739 ISBN 13: 9780140440737
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1987

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One of the most influential - and best loved - spiritual autobiographies

'I beg anyone who reads this account to bear in mind, for the love of the Lord, how wicked my life has been'

Born in the Castilian town of Ávila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. She went on to found seventeen Carmelite monasteries throughout Spain, yet always denied her own saintliness. This frank account is one of the great stories of a religious life and, after Don Quixote, Spain's most widely read prose classic.

Translated with an Introduction by J. M. Cohen

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St Teresa (1515-1582) entered the Carmelite convent in Castile when she was 21. Approaching her vocation with determination but no enthusiasm, she slowly realised God can be loved in and through all things.


J.M. Cohen translated nine volumes for the Penguin Classics, including Cervantes, Montaigne, Rabelais and Rousseau. He died in 1989 and was described by the Times as "one of the great English men of letters".

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140440739
ISBN 13 
9780140440737
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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