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The Story of a Soul is the autobiography of Therese of Lisieux. It was first published on September 30 1898, a year to the day after her death from tuberculosis at the age of 24, on September 30 1897. The book was a single volume formed from three distinct manuscripts - manuscripts of different length, written at different times, addressed to different people, and differing from one another in character. The work of unifying these disparate manuscripts was carried out by Pauline, the sister of Therese. Pauline divided Therese's three manuscripts into eleven chapters and added a twelfth in which she summarized the last months of her life. Finally, she supplemented the work with some of Therese 's poetry and with extracts from her correspondence. The twelve chapters of The Story of a Soul were printed in small format in 1902: An Unpetalled Rose. By 1906, The Story of a Soul was already translated into six languages (English, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish).

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Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897) was a French Carmelite nun. She is also known as The Little Flower of Jesus. She felt an early call to religious life and overcoming various obstacles became a nun at 15. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, the last two spent in a night of faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. The impact of her posthumous publications, including her memoir The Story of a Soul, made her one of the best known Catholics of the 20th century.

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