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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Bookman
Author: The Man in Black
Author: Stanley John WeymanPublisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This novel by the prolific writer Stanley John Weyman takes us back to early seventeenth-century France. The central character is a twelve-year-old orphan boy, Jehan, who has the great misfortune to fall into the clutches of the cruel man in black. Weyman has the art of transporting his readers into the scene that he describes and this novel is a tense, suspenseful, and page-turning thrill of a read.
The end of the house of Alard ...
Author: Sheila Kaye-SmithBook Review Digest
Author: The Cumulative Book Review Digest
Author: The Spectator
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
The End of the House of Alard
Author: Sheila Kaye-SmithPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813235626
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present the second volume in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will attempt to bring new attention to prose work of Catholic women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a best selling author who had published over 50 books in her lifetime, few of which remain in print since her death in 1956. The End of the House of Alard (1922) documents the choices made by the final generation of the aristocratic Alard family and the ways in which they, both willingly and reluctantly, bring the long line of their ancestral blood to a complete and sudden end. For some of them, the end of the Alard line is as painful to enact as it is for others to witness; for others it is welcomed as a necessary modernization or a true realignment toward religious integity and universal human truth. Some of the family's children yearn for individual liberty; others have it forced upon them. But none of them can find it under the burden of the Alard name and its crumbling estate. The End of the House of Alard is a novel about the human need for purpose, for a truth by which to live and for which to die. It is a novel about faith and idolatry, love and death, freedom and bondage, nature and grace. Put another way, it is about how human beings cannot escape the great challenge of salvation, of breaking free from false, man made gods in order to unite instead with the divine love of Christ. The novel's characters span a breadth of options on this spectrum and their various outlooks on life continue to reflect those available to us today.
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