{"product_id":"super-infinite-book-katherine-rundell-9780374607401","title":"Super-Infinite","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\u003e Shortlisted for the 2023 Plutarch Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e He 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49763362734353,"sku":"CIN0374607400VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50175903858961,"sku":"CIN0374607400G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50748149596433,"sku":"GOR014057597","price":22.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374607400.jpg?v=1751292295","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/super-infinite-book-katherine-rundell-9780374607401","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}