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Wisdom & Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton

Product Description: Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce presents a major biography of a 20th century literary giant, providing a great deal of important information on GKC never before published...read more

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9780898707007 | Ignatius Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of G.

Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesterton

Product Description: Joseph Pearce has avioded the factual errors and misjudgements made by most earlier biographers, and his research has been meticulous, with the result that ths study contains a great deal of important material never before published...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780898706291 | Ignatius Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Joseph Pearce has avioded the factual errors and misjudgements made by most earlier biographers, and his research has been meticulous, with the result that ths study contains a great deal of important material never before published.

Chesterton: Sabiduria E Inocencia

By Joseph Pearce

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9788474904628 | Ediciones Encuentro Sa, December 26, 1997, cover price $47.95

The Three Ys Men

Product Description: This first novel from the author of the internationally best-selling biography of Chesterton, Wisdom and Innocence, is best described as a tale in the tradition of Chesterton or Belloc, or possibly as "Terry Pratchett meeting Umberto Eco in a journey through Sophie's World in the hunt for Thomas Aquinas...read more

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9781901157024 | Saint Austin Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This first novel from the author of the internationally best-selling biography of Chesterton, Wisdom and Innocence, is best described as a tale in the tradition of Chesterton or Belloc, or possibly as "Terry Pratchett meeting Umberto Eco in a journey through Sophie's World in the hunt for Thomas Aquinas.

Tolkien: Man and Myth

Product Description: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings took first place in a recent nationwide British poll to find the greatest book of the century. He may be the most popular writer of our age, but Tolkien is often misunderstood. This major new study of his life, his character and his work reveals the facts and confronts the myths...read more

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9780898707113 | Ignatius Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: He may be the must popular writer of our age, but Tolkien is often misunderstood.

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9780898708257 | Ignatius Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: J.

Wisdom & Innocence

Product Description: Drawing on previously unpublished material, this biography surveys the life of G.K. Chesterton, who wrote a huge number of essays, biographies, novels, plays and stories. The book explores his religious faith, and the influence he had on others such as C...read more

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9780340694343 | Hodder & Stoughton, June 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Drawing on previously unpublished material, this biography surveys the life of G.

Tolkien : A Celebration: Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy

Product Description: Collected essays in celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien's great literary legacy, and the spiritual values and faith which undergirded his imaginary Middle-earth. Includes personal recollections from George Sayer and Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis's biographer, and thirteen other essays, including: J...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780006281207 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 1, 1999, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Collected essays in celebration of J.

Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief

Product Description: Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of the greatest writers in the English language: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Graham Greene, Edith Sitwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Hilaire Belloc, G...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780898707908 | Ignatius Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of the greatest writers in the English language: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C.

The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

Details the life of Oscar Wilde, including his work as an author, his fascination with Catholicism, and his time in prison for a homosexual affair.

By Joseph Pearce

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9781586170264 | Ignatius Pr, June 15, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Details the life of Oscar Wilde, including his work as an author, his fascination with Catholicism, and his time in prison for a homosexual affair.

9780002740425 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, September 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, in the 1990s, Oscar Wilde is hailed as a progressive sexual liberator.

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9780002740517 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A thought-provoking re-examination of Wilde's brilliant, tragic life and his lifelong spiritual yearnings.

Flowers of Heaven: One Thousand Years of Christian Verse

Product Description: A collection of Christian verse dating from Hildegard of Bingen in 1098, to 20th-century poets like Siegfried Sassoon and T.S. Eliot. Male and female poets are included, representing all Christian denominations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780340746325 | Hodder & Stoughton, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A collection of Christian verse dating from Hildegard of Bingen in 1098, to 20th-century poets like Siegfried Sassoon and T.

Tolkien: A Celebration : Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy

Product Description: Anticipating the great amount of interest in Tolkien’s writings due in part to the major theatrical movie release in late Fall on his classic The Lord of the Rings, this highly readable collection of writings celebrates J.R.R.Tolkien’s great literary legacy and the spiritual values that undergird his imaginary Middle-earth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780898708660 | Ignatius Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Anticipating the great amount of interest in Tolkien’s writings due in part to the major theatrical movie release in late Fall on his classic The Lord of the Rings, this highly readable collection of writings celebrates J.

Bloomsbury and Beyond: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell

Product Description: A biography of a prominent and popular poet of the first helf of the 20th century. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, Roy Campbell had among his friends T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell. The Bloomsbury set, passionate, unconventional and daring, have passed into literary legend...read more

By Joseph Pearce

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9780002740920 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, December 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Bloomsbury set, passionate, unconventional and daring, have passed into literary legend.

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9780007137756 | Harper Uk, April 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A biography of a prominent and popular poet of the first helf of the 20th century.

Small Is Still Beautiful

Schumacher a proposed a system of intermediate technology, based on smaller working units and regional workplaces that use local resources. In this work, Joseph Pearce develops the ideas of Schumacher while taking up the themes of economic and political 'smallness' for our day.

By Joseph Pearce

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9780007142156 | Harpercollins Pub Ltd, June 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Schumacher a proposed a system of intermediate technology, based on smaller working units and regional workplaces that use local resources.

Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc

Product Description: Hilaire Belloc is one of the most important, revered and reviled writers of the twentieth century. A social commentator, a master of finely crafted prose and a poet of great wit, he continues to fascinate. Joseph Pearce examines the lasting impact of this prolific writer and social commentator on British intellectual life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780898709421 | Ignatius Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Hilaire Belloc is one of the most important, revered and reviled writers of the twentieth century.

J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth

Product Description: 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...read more

By Bradley J. Birzer and Joseph Pearce (foreword by)

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9781882926848 | Isi Books, November 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Explores the twentieth-century Christian humanist's views on creation as seen in his construction of Middle Earth.

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9781932236200 | Isi Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: 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.

Tolkien: Hombre Y Mito

By Joseph Pearce

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9788445074442 | Minotauro Ediciones Avd, April 1, 2003, cover price $8.95

C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church

Product Description: There are many Protestants and Catholics who have been deeply affected and spirituality changed by the writings of C.S. Lewis, including many converts to Catholicism who credit C.S. Lewis for playing a significant role in their conversion...read more

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9780898709797 | Ignatius Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: There are many Protestants and Catholics who have been deeply affected and spirituality changed by the writings of C.

Unafraid of Virginia Woolf: The Friends and Enemies of Roy Campbell

Product Description: Roy Campbell (1902–57) led an unquiet life marked by numerous affairs (both real and imagined), brawls (he once attacked Stephen Spender on stage during a poetry recital), and curious stunts (with the help of Dylan Thomas, he once ate a vase of daffodils in celebration of St...read more

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9781932236361 | Isi Books, June 30, 2004, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Roy Campbell (1902–57) led an unquiet life marked by numerous affairs (both real and imagined), brawls (he once attacked Stephen Spender on stage during a poetry recital), and curious stunts (with the help of Dylan Thomas, he once ate a vase of daffodils in celebration of St.

Literary Giants, Literary Catholics

Product Description: British author Joseph Pearce has firmly established himself as the premier literary biographer of our time, especially in interpreting the spiritual depths of the Catholic literary tradition. In this new book, Pearce examines a plethora of authors, taking the reader through a dazzling tour of the creative landscape of Catholic prose and poetry...read more

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9781586170776 | Ignatius Pr, April 1, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: British author Joseph Pearce has firmly established himself as the premier literary biographer of our time, especially in interpreting the spiritual depths of the Catholic literary tradition.

Flowers of Heaven: 1000 Years Of Christian Verse

Product Description: This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity. All of the great ones are here: Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, Dante and Chaucer from the High Middle Ages; Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and John Donne from the Reformation; English and American Romantics such as Browning and Whittier; late nineteenth-century mystics like Dickenson and Hopkins, as well the great converts of that period like Newman and Chesterton; and, T...read more

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9781586170783 | Ignatius Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of Christianity.

Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics As If Families Mattered

Product Description: E.F. Schumacher argued that our current pursuit of profit and progress which promotes giant organizations has resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. He proposed a system of intermediate technology, based on smaller working units and regional workplaces, utilizing local resources...read more

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9781933859040 | Isi Books, December 12, 2006, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: E.

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9781933859057 | Isi Books, December 12, 2006, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: E.

The Quest for Shakespeare

Product Description: Highly regarded and best-selling literary writer and teacher, Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the world's most revered writer that is sure to be controversial. Unabashedly provocative, with scholarship, insight and keen observation, Pearce strives to separate historical fact from fiction about the beloved Bard...read more

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9781586172244 | Ignatius Pr, April 1, 2008, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Highly regarded and best-selling literary writer and teacher, Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the world's most revered writer that is sure to be controversial.

Hamlet: With Contemporary Essays

Product Description: Arguably Shakespeare's finest and most important play, Hamlet is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature. "To be or not to be", may be the question, but the answer has eluded many generations of critics...read more

By Joseph Pearce (editor) and William Shakespeare

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9781586172619 | Ignatius Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Arguably Shakespeare's finest and most important play, Hamlet is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Product Description: In true Faustian tradition The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the tale of a young man who sells his soul to the devil in return for youthful immortality, only to discover that the "devil's bargain" is no bargain at all. "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?" When Dorian Gray is asked this question he knows the answer...read more

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9781586172626 | Ignatius Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: In true Faustian tradition The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the tale of a young man who sells his soul to the devil in return for youthful immortality, only to discover that the "devil's bargain" is no bargain at all.

Pride and Prejudice

Product Description: Jane Austen is arguably the finest female novelist who ever lived and Pride and Prejudice is arguably the finest, and is certainly the most popular, of her novels. An undoubted classic of world literature, its profound Christian morality is all too often missed or wilfully overlooked by today's (post)modern critics...read more

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9781586172633 | Ignatius Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jane Austen is arguably the finest female novelist who ever lived and Pride and Prejudice is arguably the finest, and is certainly the most popular, of her novels.

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