Saint-Watching by Phyllis McGinley - 1970

London England: Collins. Hardback. Previous owners name to inside cover. Price clipped to D/J. The author's book traverses centuries and continents to show us saints as men and women, as dissenters and builders, as wits, as friends of animals, as pragmatists and dreamers, as generators of love, and as movers and shakers of destiny. Some of her favourites are studied in great depth. She presents Augustine of Hippr as Everyman, 'a man as genuine as ourselves' driven by sensual humanity, struggling to subdue his appetites; and, like the rest of us, putting off the decision to reform.With the enthusiasm of a self-appointed hero-worshipper, the author effectively shares her joy in portraying the saints as earthly beings - magnificent souls whose fiercely individualistic lives illuminate the meaning and value of life itself. 243 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. and scholarly books etc.) . Very Good. Cloth. 1st Uk Edition. 1970.