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The Anathemata
The Best Books to Read This Winter | David Jones, The Anathemata
  • ISBN: 9780571259793
  • Pages: 272
  • Publisher: Faber
  • Binding: Paperback

The Anathemata

David Jones
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In 200-odd pages of verse, prose, image and inscription, David Jones’s The Anethamata explores, and muses on, the development of humankind from its pre-human ancestors; the formation of Europe, both geological and cultural; the nature of human beings as creatures who make things; and, key to it all, faith and the Christian mysteries. There is so much meaning to discover.



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