In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country priest who grows to understand his provincial parish while learning spiritual humility himself. Awarded the Grand Prix for Literature by the Academie Francaise, The Diary of a Country Priest was adapted int[...]
"Nothing but a little savage" is how the village schoolteacher describes 14-year-old Mouchette, and her view is echoed by every right-thinking local citizen. Mouchette herself doesn't contradict it; ragged, dirt-poor, a born liar and loser, she knows herself to be "alone, completely alone, against e[...]