Thérèse: A Portrait in Four Parts Fenton first published in 1936

first published in 1936

and writing with the power of distinction and force of clarity

respectively

choosing instead to present Augustine’s “personality and thought in the everlasting form of his writings as a perennial possibility of Christian existence

Progress in Mental Prayer

Thérèse: A Portrait in Four Parts Fenton first published in 1936By Franois Mauriac Thrse: A Portrait in Four Parts presents in full the tragedy of Thrse Desqueyroux. Acquitted of the attempted murder of her husband, Thrse escapes one prison only to find herself enclosed in another: a wretched life of envy and frustration. Beginning with the eponymous novel, and moving quickly through the novellas Thrse and the Doctor and Thrse at the Hotel to its harrowing terminus at The End of the Night, Franois Mauriac