The Malefactors Bernanos A Bad Dream wrestles with

A Bad Dream wrestles with the fundamentally supernatural aspect of crime: its origination in the Father of Lies

Brungardt supplements the volume with an original introduction and copious editorial notes

born of intellectual and cultural exhaustion

A housekeeper finds happiness (and love)

The Malefactors Bernanos A Bad Dream wrestles withBy Caroline Gordon Home is where the heart is, but the heart, nowadays, is on the run. Tom and Vera Claiborne have settled at Blenckers Brook with a motley assortment of friends, family, and literati. Despite life being a party every day, a deepening sense of disaffection develops among its inhabitants: Tom, frustrated by his poetic impotency, takes a mistress; his cousin and his wife offer psychiatric theories and treatments; and Vera throws herself