Home in the World
The author, an economist and philosopher and Nobel laureate, offers in this book more than just a memoir: a calm and reasoned defense of cultural pluralism, open identity, and the coexistence of traditions...
Non Fiction
C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
Joseph Pearce, a renowned scholar of English literature, addresses in this essay the reason why C. S. Lewis, despite his intellectual and spiritual closeness to Catholicism, never took the definitive step...
Marceline Desbordes‑Valmore: The Life of a Poetess
A brief biography of a French poetess and actress from the first half of the 19th century. The life of the subject was very difficult and an example of strength in the face of adversity.
Signs of Survival
This work is a true memoir told from the perspective of a young girl who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust. Renee was ten years old when Nazi troops arrived in Czechoslovakia; her younger sister...
The Seven Storey Mountain
Since its publication in 1948, The Seven Storey Mountain became a landmark of 20th-century spiritual literature, selling millions of copies worldwide and being translated into more than twenty languages....
The Meaning of History
History does not have an end in itself; rather, the end lies outside it, in eternity. It is, as could be expected from Berdyaev, a Christian vision of history, which is nothing more than an eon within the...
The Noise of Time: Selected Prose
It is a short book in length but enormous in intellectual and moral density. It is not a conventional autobiography nor an exercise in nostalgia: it is the testimony of how a conscience is formed —and...
Divine Therapy and Addiction
It is a serious, honest, and spiritually ambitious book that clearly sets itself apart from reductionist approaches to addiction. Keating succeeds in placing the problem at a deeper level than mere...
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
This book, presented here in a reissued edition, traces the life of the Trapp family from the moment its author joined the household in 1926 as governess to the widowed Captain von Trapp’s children, up to...
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Max Hastings is a distinguished journalist and historian of 20th-century conflicts, mostly of World War II.
This is his first book on World War I. It deals with the months from the beginning of the...