Mother Teresa: A Biography

by Meg Greene

Book Overview

In this new biography, students will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313327718
• ISBN13: 9780313327711
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"