Of Mortal Love
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Some rubbing wear at back of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
What does it mean to love in the shadow of mortality — and what happens when passion outlasts its object? Of Mortal Love by William Gerhardie is a luminous and emotionally intricate novel that chronicles the tender, agonising entanglements of desire, devotion, and the human compulsion to seek transcendence through another person. Set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life, the novel presents its protagonist caught in the grip of a love that is at once consuming and destined for grief, rendered with the psychological precision and dry irony that defined Gerhardie's singular literary voice. Gerhardie — long championed by figures such as Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton — writes with a tragicomic sensibility that refuses easy consolation, dissecting romantic attachment with the clarity of a philosopher and the warmth of a humanist. This edition includes a preface by Michael Holroyd, situating the novel within Gerhardie's remarkable and unjustly neglected body of work. A meditation on impermanence dressed in the clothing of a love story, Of Mortal Love leaves the reader questioning whether love is a shelter from mortality — or merely its most exquisite disguise.
Author: William Gerhardie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Macdonald
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Some rubbing wear at back of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
What does it mean to love in the shadow of mortality — and what happens when passion outlasts its object? Of Mortal Love by William Gerhardie is a luminous and emotionally intricate novel that chronicles the tender, agonising entanglements of desire, devotion, and the human compulsion to seek transcendence through another person. Set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life, the novel presents its protagonist caught in the grip of a love that is at once consuming and destined for grief, rendered with the psychological precision and dry irony that defined Gerhardie's singular literary voice. Gerhardie — long championed by figures such as Evelyn Waugh, H.G. Wells, and Edith Wharton — writes with a tragicomic sensibility that refuses easy consolation, dissecting romantic attachment with the clarity of a philosopher and the warmth of a humanist. This edition includes a preface by Michael Holroyd, situating the novel within Gerhardie's remarkable and unjustly neglected body of work. A meditation on impermanence dressed in the clothing of a love story, Of Mortal Love leaves the reader questioning whether love is a shelter from mortality — or merely its most exquisite disguise.