The Pen and the Cross
The Pen and the Cross

Author: Richard Griffiths

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1441183825

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This incisive and perceptive new book concerns 'Catholic Literature' in Britain since 1850. To many people, Roman Catholicism is culturally foreign and 'other'. And yet some of the most outstanding writers of recent times have been Catholics - often converts, such as Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark and David Jones. In every case these authors' Catholicism was integral to their creative genius and they represent an important strand in any account of English literature. Professor Griffiths' account is set against a wide and varied canvas. It gives a full account of the growth of Catholicism as a cultural, social and political force in Great Britain since Newman. Griffiths is concerned also to relate his story to movements on the continent and examines on his way the impact of French Catholic writers such as Huysmans, Peguy and Mauriac on their British counterparts and the influence of British Catholic writers such as Newman, Faber and Chesterton on Europe.

The Lonely Lady Of Dulwich
The Lonely Lady Of Dulwich

Author: Maurice Baring

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0755151100

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The novel portrays the life of a lonely, beautiful, yet over-protected Catholic girl and the several loves of her long life. A struggle develops between the demands of love and religious orthodoxy. The story takes place against the background of upper-class English and French life at the turn of the twentieth century.

A Virginia Woolf Chronology
A Virginia Woolf Chronology

Author: Edward Bishop

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1988-12-13

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1349078816

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An attempt to draw together the important details of Woolf's working life in a single volume, allowing the reader to trace her development as novelist, feminist and literary journalist against the background of the age.

Darby And Joan
Darby And Joan

Author: Maurice Baring

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0755150988

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A series of romances, missed chances, and disasters befall the lives of Joan and Alexander, as each falls for others at seemingly unpropitious moments. Tragic misunderstandings, old flames turning up on wedding days, and bizarre coincidences are all the result of a missed letter! This romance provides insight into human strengths and weaknesses.

Catholic Literary Giants
Catholic Literary Giants

Author: Joseph Pearce

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2014-09-17

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1681490749

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In Catholic Literary Giants, Joseph Pearce takes the reader on a dazzling tour of the creative landscape of Catholic prose and poetry. Covering the vast and impressive terrain from Dante to Tolkien, from Shakespeare to Waugh, this book is an immersion into the spiritual depths of the Catholic literary tradition with one of today's premier literary biographers as our guide. Focusing especially on the literary revival of the twentieth century, Pearce explores well-known authors such as G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene and J.R.R. Tolkien, while introducing lesser-known writers Roy Campbell, Maurice Baring, Owen Barfield and others. He even includes the new saint, Pope John Paul II, who wrote many literary and poetic pieces, among them the story that was made into a feature film, The Jeweler's Shop.