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The Holy Sinner

Author Name    Mann, Thomas

Title   The Holy Sinner

Binding   Hardcover

Book Condition   VG+/VG-; Bound in black cloth, title in gilt, initials embossed on ffep (faint) DJ; with a few tiny chips, mostly along edges and a few small rubbed spots

Edition   1st Edition

Publisher   New York Alfred A. Knopf 1951

ISBN Number    B000FCEAVI

Seller ID   7032

Explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life--the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic. Mann uses a medieval legend about 'the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the blessed Pope Gregory' , illuminating with his ironic sensibility the notion of original sin and transcendence of evil. Trabslated from the German by H. T. Lowe-Porter; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 336 pp

Literature German Literature Fiction

Price = 12.00 USD

 


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