The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila Author:Elizabeth Hamilton About this book: — "The most readable life of St. Teresa... it is a model of simple English, a joy to come across in these days of over-writing." - Sir Compton Mackenzie — "One has nothing but praise for her vital recreation of a saint who might otherwise, because of her very greatness, be in danger of seeming too much of a mystic to be human." - ... more »G. B. Stern in the Catholic Herald« less