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I first read this philosophical novel when I was nineteen, and find it is one of the rare books I return to again and again. Dag Hammarskjold, a former Secretary General of the United Nations., carried two books with him always: The Bible and The Serpent and the Rope. Raja Rao was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature and received many other awards. This novel is for anyone with a search for Truth.
The Serpent and the Rope is about a young Brahmin from India who lives in France, marries a French woman yet loves his friend’s wife who is also from India. This is a story about a young man’s search for Truth which leads him from India to France, England, and back to India. Here is the opening:
I was born a Brahmin – that is, devoted to Truth and all that. Yet how…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
My favorite novel by British playwright & novelist Charles Morgan.
The character of Therese is inspired by the famous French singer, Edith Piaf. Set in the French countryside, this unique love story between street singer Therese and philosopher Barbet, a great passion that cannot be sustained in daily life.
Why, when we love each other, can’t we be together? Why is it impossible? I know the answer, Barbet. Because we are on separate voyages.
Morgan dives deeply into his characters and the complexity of their life journeys. Sometimes love is not enough. Something readers may find a mirror to their own individual voyages.
Set in the Charente country and the Paris music halls of the 1930s, The Voyage tells of the travails of one man’s quest for lovelove for a woman, and love for France. Available once more to a modern readership, the story that is widely regarded as Charles Morgan’s finest work is that rare thing: a novel with appeal across ages and tastes. It is at once romance and adventure, a hymn to France.
