Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada was born in the Castilian city of Avila during the year 1515, the third child in a family descended from Jewish merchants who had converted to Christianity during the reign of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Teresa of Avila, whose life of prayer enriched the Church during the 16th century counter-reformation. 15, Roman Catholics celebrate the Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystic St. The Times obituary described him as the translator of the foreign prose classics for our times and one of the last great English men of letters, while the Independent wrote that his influence will be felt for generations to come.On Oct.
With his son Mark he edited the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations and its companion Dictionary of Modern Quotations.
He frequently visited Spain and made several visits to Mexico, Cuba and other Spanish American countries. He collected the three books of Comic and Curious Verse and anthologies of Latin American and Cuban writing. Cohen, born in London in 1903 and a Cambridge graduate, was the author of many Penguin translations, including versions of Cervantes, Rabelais and Montaigne. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This frank account is one of the great stories of a religious life and a literary masterpiece-after Don Quixote, it is Spains most widely read prose classic. Teresa always denied her own saintliness, however, saying in a letter: There is no suggestion of that nonsense about my supposed sanctity. She went on to found seventeen Carmelite monasteries throughout Spain. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation-her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by many visions and mystical experiences, including the piercing of her heart by a spear of divine love. Book Synopsis Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. About the Book This translation first published 1957-T.p.
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