The Root and the Flower by Myers, L. H.

The Root and the Flower (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322608)

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The Root and the Flower by Myers, L. H.

The Root and the Flower

$22.95
The Root and the Flower by Myers, L. H.

The Root and the Flower

$22.95
Format: Paperback
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Set in the war-torn world of Mughal India and first published in the gathering darkness of the 1930s, the three novels collected in The Root and the Flower are stories of intrigue, murder, and romance; of Tantric abandonment and Buddhist renunciation; of emotional delirium and spiritual adventure. This enthralling visionary trilogy is, as Penelope Fitzgerald remarks in her introduction, a "strange masterpiece," and one of the unsung glories of modern literature.

Author: L. H. Myers
ISBN-10: 0940322609
ISBN-13: 9780940322608
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2001
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 8.18h x 4.98w x 1.15d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2001 pg. 214
Library Journal 03/15/2001 pg. 112
Publishers Weekly 03/19/2001 pg. 78
New York Times 08/05/2001 pg. 24
New York Times 12/02/2001 pg. 89
Publishers Weekly 08/06/2001
By L. H. Myers
By L. H. Myers
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L.H. (Leopold Hamilton) Myers is the author of The Orissers (1923), The Clio (1925), Strange Glory (1936), and The Pool of Vishnu (1940), which was intended to complete the story told in The Root and the Flower. The son of a founding member of the Society for Psychical Research, Myers was deeply concerned with issues of spiritual transcendence and social justice; briefly active with the Bloomsbury Group, he later rejected what he judged the members' insufficient regard for spiritual matters. He committed suicide in 1944.

Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) graduated with honors from Somerville College, Oxford, and worked at a variety of jobs until, in 1975, she published her first book, a biography of the pre-Raphaelite master Edward Burne-Jones. She was the author of two other biographies and ten works of fiction, among them The Blue Flower, Human Voices, and The Bookshop.

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