The Archive · 1937

Life of Jesus

By Francois Mauriac of the French. Academy

Francois Mauriac is a very famous.and popular French" novelist, His intensely sympathetic Imagination gives to. his account of the incidents in the Gospel story a quite unusual freshness, and his interpretation of the background to the well-known words and actions gives whole new; content to their meaning.

'The aim of this book has been simply {o' present the. Lite of Christ as it might be a novel or a blogruphy, and has been success{ully accomplished. It differs, too, from many imaginative Lives of Christ in that it lacks the least trace of sentimentallly and stresses the sternness as well as the tenderness of Christ, $0.75,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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