First edition, 1st UK printing
Condition: Near fine in very good minus dust jacket. Small ink name on first page, else fine. Dust jacket has brown ring stain to rear panel, slight edge nicks, and price clipped. Hardback.
Publishing Info: Cassirer, Oxford, 1962
ISBN: n/a
This was not a biography of St. Francis but an interpretation of one of the most lovable figures in history by the vivid Greek writer. He had dedicated this book to his friend Albert Schweitzer.Kazantzakis saw humans as the battle-ground of the eternal struggle between spirit and flesh. His writings are an intensely anguished expression of the struggle and he uses the story of St. Frances as he used that of Christ in The Last Temptation, to draw us into the maelstrom.
