Adventures in the Book Pages - Couverture souple

Short, Edward

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0852448686 ISBN 13 : 9780852448687

Editeur : Gracewing, 2015

Synopsis

In Adventures in the Book Pages, Edward Short shares his insights into history, literature, music, art, religion, and biography from a refreshingly Catholic standpoint. Here are essays and reviews on Renaissance portraiture, Catholic poetry, the Great War, Europe entre deux guerres, and the Blue Plaques of London. There are also pieces on Ben Jonson, Samuel Johnson, W. M. Thackeray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Penelope Fitzgerald, as well as Henry V, Henry VIII, John Ruskin, A. W. N. Pugin, Henry Mayhew, Edward VII, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Winston Churchill, Kenneth Clark, Alec Guinness, John Osborne, Charles Arnold-Baker and the Queen Mother. And, last, but not least, an extended essay on Cardinal Newman and the idea of sanctity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward Short is the author of Newman and his Contemporaries and Newman and his Family, both now reissued by Gracewing in uniform editions to the present volume, as well as Newman and History. The Catholic Herald called the first volume of his collected essays and reviews, Adventures in the Book Pages "wise, witty and entertaining." His critical edition of Newman's Difficulties of Anglicans introduces and annotates the lectures that Newman delivered in London in 1850, which, taken together, constitute a dress rehearsal for his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Edward Short also edited The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse (2022), which Prof. Emma Mason of Warwick University called "a mesmerizingly beautiful anthology." His latest collection, What the Bells Sang: Essays and Reviews (2023) includes far-ranging pieces on poets, novelists, moralists and historians. Lord Andrew Roberts, Churchill's biographer, called the book "beautifully written," "brave" and "wise."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gracewing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0852448686
• ISBN 13: 9780852448687
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 460
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible