(B-026316) O'Boyle, Ita. Gertrud Von Le Fort: An Introduction to the Prose Work. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. 106 pages. Very Good in Good+ DJ. DJ lightly rubbed with two small price stickers on front panel. Thin skin of paper pulled away from inside of DJ has adhered to the front cover cloth at upper corner . Von le Fort is a German writer whose work has been compared favorably with Isak Dinesen, Graham Greene and Francois Mauriac. Her perennial theme is the great Christian paradox of attainment in sacrifice, accomplishment in retirement, life in death. Many of her tales are situated in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. (Von Le Fort, Gertru)
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