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Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 The Last Confession
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'One of the most famous victims of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was the brilliant Dominican monk Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake for heresy in 1600.

'Morris West recreates a diary of Bruno's intimate thoughts as he languishes in Rome's worst prison for seven years. Bruno's reflections and frank memories of his life reveal him to be both a fine thinker and a flawed priest—and a man willing to pay the highest price to be true to himself.

'The Last Confession was West's final novel, published posthumously. Written with passion and compassion, this is a voice that mesmerises from the start.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

Notes

  • Published posthumously.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:HarperCollins Australia , 2000 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Last Confession : Foreword, Thomas Keneally , single work criticism biography (p. vii-xiii)
The Last Confession : Editor's Note, Angelo Loukakis , single work criticism (p. xiv-xx)
The Last Confession : Author's Note, Morris West , single work column (p. xxi)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2000 .
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      Extent: xxi, 214p.p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Thomas Keneally with notes by the editor, Angelo Loukakis and the author.
      ISBN: 0732265959
    • Oxford, Oxfordshire,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Isis ,       2001 .
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      Extent: 248p.
      ISBN: 0753165457
    • New Milford, Connecticut,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Toby Press ,       2003 .
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      Extent: 182p.
      ISBN: 1902881443
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2017 .
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      Extent: 256p.p.
      Note/s:

      • Published September 2017.

      ISBN: 9781760297763, 9781760638443
Alternative title: La ultima confesion
Language: Spanish
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Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.
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Works about this Work

Morris West Michael Wilding , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Wild about Books : Essays on Books and Writing 2019; (p. 72-78) 'The author of thirty books with international sales in excess of sixty million copies, Morris West was undoubtedly the most successful Australian novelist. Yet his work has received little serious, critical notice. In part this was due to academic prejudice against popular fiction. He also suffered from being labelled a Catholic novelist, as Judah Waten and Frank Hardy suffered from being labelled left-wing novelists. The chattering classes never warmed to him. The glitterati rejected him because he was a Roman Catholic and believed in God. The Catholics were unenthusiastic because of his self-appointed role as vocal critic of the church. The academics ignored him because in the years of his success fiction deemed to be commercial was not discussed in lit. crit. And since most of his fiction was set in Italy, the U.S.A. and Asia, rather than Australia, he tended to get ignored in the development of Australian Literature studies. His leaving his first marriage and leaving Australia provoked resentment in the media. In writing political thrillers about public issues, in maintaining an independent and uncompromising critical stance, he inevitably offended many powerful interest groups. His refusal to accept the offer of a formal political role from the Labor Party caused deep offence, as he recorded in his memoir, A View from the Ridge. Yet the critical industry has been able to accommodate other commercially successful writers, and other Catholic writers. West, however, was a consistently questioning, challenging, oppositional voice.   Conformist Catholics saw him as troublesome and critical, the left categorized him as Catholic and failed to read him. This was a mistake.' (Introduction)
Filipo Giordano Bruno and the Mechanics of Social Control Vineta O'Malley , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
[Review] The Last Confession James Murray , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , August vol. 5 no. 7 2000; (p. 23)
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
Vale a Reluctant Heretic Margaret Jones , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 August 2000; (p. 7)
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
Ring of Fire Edmund Campion , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 July vol. 118 no. 6233 2000; (p. 102)
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
Filipo Giordano Bruno and the Mechanics of Social Control Vineta O'Malley , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
Meeting His Maker Michael McGirr , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 June 2000; (p. 7)
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
West's Last Rites Tony Baker , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 July 2000; (p. 21)
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
Final Manifesto of Heresy and Bravery Tom Austen , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 1 July 2000; (p. 8)
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
An Unorthodox Life Ralph Elliott , 2000 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 July 2000; (p. 20)
— Review of The Last Confession Morris West , 2000 single work novel
Quietly into the Night Peter Lalor , 2000 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 May 2000; (p. 79)
Last Writes Tony Stephens , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 June 2000; (p. 3)
Last Charge of an Old Warhorse Murray Waldren , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 June 2000; (p. 10)
The Last Confession : Foreword Thomas Keneally , 2000 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Last Confession 2000; (p. vii-xiii)
The Last Confession : Editor's Note Angelo Loukakis , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Last Confession 2000; (p. xiv-xx)
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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