Blessed Among Women

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Willing [Published date: 1948]. Hard cover, 262 pp. NO other printings listed. Good+/ NO dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers and light overall soiling. Binding tight. Previous owner's book-plate on front paste-down. Browning to end-papers. Otherwise pages are very lightly aged, but clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Overall, a nice copy of this hard-to-find classic. [Excerpt from FOREWORD by Starr Daily] There is something unique and original in this story, both in treatment and material. It is a book rather difficult to classify, although the author is obviously a novelist. The book is a novel, and yet it reads like a composite biography of the world's greatest two women. the mother of God's Son and the mother of John the Baptist. These famous women are treated with extraordinary perception, delicate understanding and sympathy. The story has the sweep also of a great allegory. and the lingering power of a legend. The author has done his work well, for it seems at times almost as though he were written through, so smoothly does the narrative flow. The best thing about the book I can say is simply this, I wish I had written it. The author has not been handicapped by any outworn creeds and steril theological half-truths. He writes with a freedom that borders well-nigh on license at times, and this gives the reader a long breath of freshness after wading through the endless run of religious books. For this is a religious book; but not a preachy, pious book. Arnold Michael has written with a genuinely spiritual dare, which few authors have the courage to attempt. N° de ref. del artículo 20190724004

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