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Selected Literary Essays

Selected Literary Essays

This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis' most important literary essays, written between 1932 and...

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The Major Works

The Major Works

by Francis Bacon

This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not...

tags: english literature, writing, philosophy, essays, classics, nonfiction, literature

Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C.S. Lewis Can Change Your Life

Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C.S. Lewis Can Change Your Life

by Alister McGrath

Where are the spaces that we think about life's biggest questions?At university? In church? On a screen?Or how about in books that feature spaceships, Greek...

tags: theology, writing, faith, christianity, religion, biography, books about books, nonfiction, christian

The Thing: Why I am a Catholic

The Thing: Why I am a Catholic

by G.K. Chesterton

IT will be naturally objected to the publication of these papers that they are ephemeral and that they are controversial. In other words, the normal critic...

tags: theology, catholic, writing, philosophy, european literature, christianity, essays, religion, nonfiction, british literature

The Barbarism of Berlin

The Barbarism of Berlin

by G.K. Chesterton

Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a...

tags: nonfiction, writing, history, essays

Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review

Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review

by Soren Kierkegaard

After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous "Concluding Unscientific Postscript," Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing...

tags: essays, philosophy, writing, nonfiction

More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them

More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them

by Philip Yancey

Good books inspire the imagination, jump-start creativity, and kindle new ideas. So it's no surprise that for these twenty-one members of the Chrysostom...

tags: writing, christianity, language, religion, nonfiction

Seeing Eye and Other Selected Essays from Christian Reflections

Seeing Eye and Other Selected Essays from Christian Reflections

C.S. Lewis presents an eloquent and colorful defense of Christianity for both devotees and critics . . . in a collection of essays composed over the last...

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Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation

Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation

by Thomas Merton

Amid the noise and distractions of everyday life, is it really possible to choose to love the world? In these times of great uncertainty and anxiety, how can...

tags: essays, religion, spirituality, theology, writing, nonfiction

Twelve Baskets of Crumbs

Twelve Baskets of Crumbs

by Elisabeth Elliot

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Perspectives on Our Age

Perspectives on Our Age

by Jacques Ellul

The self-portrait of a fundamental 20th-century thinker emerges in these transcripts of interviews with French historian and social critic Jacques Ellul....

tags: writing, philosophy, essays, sociology, nonfiction

C.S. Lewis Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church

C.S. Lewis Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church

As well as his many books, letters and poems, C.S. Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on...

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Writings

by George Washington

For two centuries, George Washington has stood “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” universally acknowledged as the one...

tags: nonfiction, american, writing, american revolution, politics, essays, classics, north american hi..., presidents, biography, american history, literature, history, military history

Past and Present

Past and Present

by Thomas Carlyle

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books...

tags: nonfiction, history, historical, politics, victorian, classics, british literature, literature, 19th century, european literature, philosophy, essays, writing

Contemplation in a World of Action

Contemplation in a World of Action

by Thomas Merton

The spiritual and psychological insights of these essays were nurtured in a monastic milieu, but their issues are universally human. Merton lays a foundation...

tags: essays, religion, spirituality, christianity, theology, christian, writing, action, nonfiction

On Taste On the Sublime & Beautiful Reflections on the French Revolution A Letter to a Noble (Harvard Classics)

On Taste On the Sublime & Beautiful Reflections on the French Revolution A Letter to a Noble (Harvard Classics)

by Edmund Burke

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Wisdom of the Ancients

Wisdom of the Ancients

by Francis Bacon

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and...

tags: writing, philosophy, essays, mythology, classics, fantasy, nonfiction

"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice

"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice

by Martin Luther King, Jr.

An unprecedented and timely collection that captures the global vision of Dr. King—in his own wordsAn unprecedented and timely collection that captures the...

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Disputed Questions

Disputed Questions

by Thomas Merton

These essays explore the coming together of the active and the contemplative life and the relationship of individuals to society. Merton’s writing is both...

tags: essays, religion, spirituality, christianity, theology, christian, writing, catholic

The Everyman Chesterton

The Everyman Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton’s writing in the full range of genres he mastered.Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the...

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