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Morris L. West (1916–1999)

Autor(a) de The Shoes of the Fisherman

47+ Works 6,828 Membros 167 Críticas 7 Favorited

About the Author

Morris West was born in 1916 in St Kilda, Melbourne. At the age of thirteen, he left home to study with the Christian Brothers Order in Sydney, but left in 1939 after 12 years, before taking his final vows. He was fluent in Italian and French, and taught modern languages and mathematics in New mostrar mais South Wales and Tasmania in his twenties. He spent four years code-breaking as a cipher officer in the AIF, and then for a decade he concentrated on producing and writing radio plays. West's first novel was published in 1945 and he began writing full time in the 1950s. He went to Italy were he went undercover with Father Mario Borelli, who was working with street urchins, and wrote The Children of the Sun, published in 1957. In 1959, following six months as Vatican correspondent for The Daily Mail, he published The Devil's Advocate, which won the William Heinemann Award of the Royal Society, the National Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Award. Shoes of a Fisherman, the first of The Papal Series, which included The Clowns of God, Lazarus and Eminence, won the Best-Sellers Paperback of the Year Award in 1965. West helped to found the Australian Society of Authors, was chairman of the National Book Council, chairman of the National Library of Australia and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made member of the order of Australia (MBE) in 1985 and officer of the order of Australia (AO) in 1997. Apart from writing novels, West also wrote screenplays, radio dramas, plays and was also an artist. Translated into twenty-seven languages, his works have sold more that sixty million copies. He also wrote an account on his spiritual journey, A View From the Ridge, published at the end of 1996. Morris West died while working at his desk on 9th October 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Morris L. West

The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) 1,027 exemplares
The Devil's Advocate (1959) 698 exemplares
The Clowns of God (1981) 553 exemplares
Lazarus (1999) 366 exemplares
The Salamander (1973) 344 exemplares
The Navigator (1976) 332 exemplares
Harlequin (1974) 322 exemplares
The Tower of Babel (1968) 302 exemplares
Proteus (1979) 277 exemplares
The Ambassador (1965) 248 exemplares
The World Is Made of Glass (1983) 241 exemplares
Summer of the Red Wolf (1971) 239 exemplares
Masterclass (1988) 227 exemplares
Eminence (1998) 191 exemplares
Cassidy (1986) 183 exemplares
Daughter of Silence (1961) 176 exemplares
The Lovers (1993) 133 exemplares
The Second Victory (1958) 111 exemplares
The Big Story (1957) 97 exemplares
Vanishing Point (1996) 94 exemplares
The Ringmaster (1992) 93 exemplares
Children of the Sun (1957) 80 exemplares
The Last Confession (2000) 67 exemplares
The Naked Country (1960) 64 exemplares
The Vatican Trilogy (1993) 55 exemplares
Gallows on the Sand (1956) 53 exemplares
Kundu (1956) 49 exemplares
The Concubine (1958) 38 exemplares
The Heretic (1969) 26 exemplares
Images and Inscriptions (1997) — Autor — 5 exemplares
La mascara de la corrupcion (1994) 2 exemplares
West Morris 1 exemplar
Obras selectas 1 exemplar
Obras Selectas II 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Tales of the Dead (1981) — Contribuidor — 64 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1963 v03 (1963) — Autor — 20 exemplares
The Devil's Advocate: A Drama in Three Acts (1961) — Novel — 12 exemplares
Voodoo: A Chrestomathy of Necromancy (1980) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Sanfter Schrecken (1997) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

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ESTE ROMANCE FASCINANTE E A HISTÓRIA DE UMA SESSAO DE PSICANALISE ENTRTE CARL GUSTAVE JUNG, E UMA PACIENTE QUE ELE INDICOU EM SUAS ANOTACOES APENAS COMO MAGDA VON G, FAZENDO UM REGISTRO LACONICO E ANGUSTIADO SOBRE O ENCONTRO DOS DOIS. OBS: LIVRO EM PAPEL JORNAL.
 
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BolideBooks | 3 outras críticas | Aug 10, 2021 |
Na sua obra há quase sempre uma ligação religiosa. A este aspecto não é indiferente o facto de ter sido monge docente durante oito anos. Vale a pena ler Morris West.
 
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anadejesus | 7 outras críticas | Jul 24, 2011 |

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Obras
47
Also by
35
Membros
6,828
Popularidade
#3,578
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
167
ISBN
874
Línguas
15
Marcado como favorito
7

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