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Super-Infinite

The Transformations of John Donne

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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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Genuinely one of the best written, most profound and beautiful books I’ve listened to on Audible. The author’s own sense of language provides a lattice in which to explore John Donne of whom I had always been a little frightened before!

The performance is also wonderful.

A Beard Trimmed by an Ice Skate

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What an achievement! Gripping, informative and glows with enthusiasm for the subject. I have never enjoyed a biography so much

Stunning

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One of the great biographies. A richness of language that mirrors the poet’s. An exhilarating experience.

Infinitely recommended

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An amazing life well-told in this book. A genius who came good within his lifetime.

Fascinating

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Fascinating insight into the varied life and the times of this exceptional poet. This book is stunningly written; very listenable and not hindered by it necessarily being based on analysis of available evidence. Excellently narrated too.

Fascinating historical account of an amazing poet

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