The Essential François Mauriac: Saint Margaret of Cortona, Letters on Art and Literature, and Proust's Way

Three great nonfiction works from the Nobel Prize–winning, Catholic, French author of Thérèse Desqueyroux.

Saint Margaret of Cortona

For François Mauriac, Saint Margaret of Cortona became a source of fascination and solace during the Nazi occupation of France. During that time, feeling himself and all his countrymen to be among the downtrodden, he wrote this biography of the thirteenth-century Italian penitent who would become the patron saint of the homeless . . .

Born in 1247 to a farming fa...