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Super-Infinite

The Transformations of John Donne

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Super-Infinite

By: Katherine Rundell
Narrated by: Jamie Parker
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**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller**
** Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize **
**Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction **

'Masterly.' Observer
'Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell
'Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times
'Unmissable.' Simon Jenkins
'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin
'A triumph.' Matt Haig
'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain

John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing.

He was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language.

In Super-Infinite, Katherine Rundell shows us the many sides of Donne's extraordinary life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living.

Katherine Rundell's book Super-Infinite was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 16-04-2022

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I enjoyed this reading of the book. Well worth your time. Now I need to read some John Donne~☆

brilliant

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This was fascinating listing to history as it played out. It’s like everything changes but nothing does. The human nature is the common thread. To think this remarkable individual has left such a mark and the Writer and Narrater have done a great unifying piece.

A rare glimpse into history

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A great insight into the life and times of a poet I studied at school. Well written, well read and very accessible.
Like any biography of an historic figure, I take some of her conclusions with a pinch of salt, but Katherine is careful to own the possible ambiguities and yet paints a colourful and detailed portrait of the man.
Would love to be transported back to hear his preaching at St. Paul's!

JOHN DONNE, ANNE DONNE, UNDONE!

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Katherine Rundell recreates the lamentably oppressive yet exhilaratingly expanding world of late Elizabethan and Jacobean England with the sort of wit and insight that Donne himself would have approved.

A unique biography of a very singular man.

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This audiobook is one for the mind, one for the heart, and dare I say, one for the soul. Impeccably written and superbly read. It is a must for Donne fans, but its appeal goes beyond the biographical content. It is quite simply a beautiful book. One to savour. To meditate. To learn. And most of all, one to remember.

Astonishing

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