{"product_id":"super-infinite-the-transformations-of-john-donne","title":"Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Best Book of 2022 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the standout scholar Katherine Rundell, \u003ci\u003eSuper-Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e presents a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe was a scholar of law, a sea adventurer, a priest, a member of Parliament--and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. He converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year-old girl without her father's consent, struggled to feed a family of ten children, and was often ill and in pain. He was a man who suffered from surges of misery, yet expressed in his verse many breathtaking impressions of electric joy and love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSuper-Infinite\u003c\/i\u003e, Katherine Rundell embarks on a fleet-footed act of evangelism, showing 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.\r","brand":"Katherine Rundell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44441838715116,"sku":"9781250872500","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781250872500.jpg?v=1719167264","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/super-infinite-the-transformations-of-john-donne","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}