From the Loyola Classics series . . . "New editions of acclaimed Catholic novels."
G.K. Chesterton Edited by George Marlin The is the second volume of Chesterton's novels in this series of his Collected Works . (Volume VI is the other book of novels.) Besides his well-known philosophical-theological writings, Chesterton's fiction is very popular ( Father Brown Mysteries, The Man Who Was Thursday , etc.) and among those who regarded him as a great literary figure are T.S. …
G.K. Chesterton Introduction by Alzina Stone Dale It is not widely known that the author of the Father Brown detective stories, Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man was also an accomplished man of letters and a literary critic of the first order. This volume brings back into print GKC's masterful Critical Study of Charles Dickens, his Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens …
Peter Milward, SJ Shakespeare, who wrote at the beginning of the long period in which the Catholic faith as violently suppressed in the British Isles, has long enjoyed an iconic status. Some readers have interpreted him as an early agnostic, expressing modern angst about whether anything exists besides "this mortal coil" that seems to be merely "full of sound and fury, …
G.K. Chesterton This volume includes the collected plays of G. K. Chesterton, his controversial writings on Bernard Shaw (who referred to GKC as a colossal genius), and a bibliography. Many of the items appear for the first time in book form. Among his plays included here are: "The Wild Knight", "Magic", "The Judgment of Dr. Johnson", "The Turkey and the Turk", and "The Surprise". Among his …
David Manuel "Either Manuel is an expert yacht racer or he knows how to pick the brains of same, becasue there's enough sea-faring action to satisfy fans of A Perfect Storm ." "A well-crafted gracefully written blending of the holy and the unholy." "Faith Abbey's Brother Bartholomew has impressed, intrigued and delighted us through the various criminal cases that have …
Lions in the City: Missionary to America A Novel by Jack Casserly American missionary Father Martin Mulloy, after laboring for 33 years in the African bush (Ghana), returns home in 1998 to die of malaria. Instead he lives to encounter the two greatest challenges of his life: the controversial changes in the Catholic Church following the Ecumenical Council of Vatican II and a soul-wrenching, …
G.K. Chesterton Throughout his life, Gilbert Chesterton always had a propensity for throwing his genius around. As a result of this tendency, Chesterton penned articles, essays, stories, and poems for so many periodicals that it was almost impossible to keep track of them. In this volume, Dr. Denis J. Conlon, Professor of English Literature at the University of Antwerp, has compiled …
A novel of Saint Helena and the Emperor Constantine.
Allen French Illustrated By Andrew Wyeth The Sauval brothers have begun to terrorize their neighbors in an attempt to bring the area under their control. They raid the Red Keep, in hope of gaining it for themselves, only to be thwarted by Sir Roger and young Conan. Now they plot anew to steal the Keep from its rightful owner, Lady Anne. She sets out, with Conan and her loyal followers, to …
From the Loyola Classics series . . . "New editions of acclaimed Catholic novels." Review by Fran Rutherford, of the Aquinas and More staff: "Helena shattered all of my preconceived notions about St. Constantine and St. Helen. The road to sainthood is often very rocky, and that was illustrated in this novel by Evelyn Waugh. Those were the days of early Christianity, and somehow …
The Moral Compass - Stories for a Life's Journey Edited By William Bennett More than two million readers and listeners have used William Bennett's The Book of Virtues to help their families learn the essential traits of good character. Now his inspiring and instructive volume, The Moral Compass, offers more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in …
Peter Jackson's film version of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the accompanying proliferation of Rings-related paraphernalia, has once again brought the work of J. R. R. Tolkien to a popular audience. There are, however, few full and accessible treatments of the religious vision permeating Tolkien's influential works. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with his fresh study, J. R. R. …
Catholic Stories For Boys & Girls (In four volumes) These happy and courageous stories were compiled and written by Catholic nuns in the 1930's. Styled to interest school-aged children, they will warm the hearts even of parents and grandparents. Excellent when read by children, even better when read to children by parents and older brothers and sisters. Stories of Our Lady, Good Deeds, the …
THE NATIONAL REVIEW TREASURY OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Selected BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. This wonderful collection opens a treasure chest containing some of the most precious gems of American children ' s literature, originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine. National Review has rediscovered and polished these literary jewels, in many cases forgotten over the decades, so that they …
Sister M. Imelda Wallace, S.L. Favorite of young and old! For sixty years acclaimed by Catholic youth across America as the story they read and re-read and lived so vividly it remains with them always. Here is the high tension story of God’s “outlaws” fighting for their Catholic Faith in seventeenth-century Scotland and living that Faith to the hilt of their claymores. Suspense, keyed like a …
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