Genetrix Caryll Houselander on the nature of Christian

on the nature of Christian prayer

a widely acclaimed scholar on constitutionalism and jurisprudence

Paperback & E-book: 352pp

and moral and political philosophy

all that is seemly

Genetrix Caryll Houselander on the nature of ChristianBy Franois Mauriac Genetrix With the publication of the novel Le baiser au lepreux (A Kiss for the Leper) in 1922, Franois Mauriac was hailed as a luminary in fiction. Genetrix, published the following year, demonstrated that this newly achieved stardom was more than deserved. The protagonist of Genetrix is Flicit Cazenave, the epitome of an overprotective, infantilizing mother, treating her fifty year old son Fernand as a weak and doltish child. When