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An unsparing portrait of a man caught between love, duty, and fate, The Aeneid defines passion, nobility, and courage for our times. Robert Fagles, whose acclaimed translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were welcomed as major publishing events, brings The Aeneid to a new generation of readers
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Highly recommended by Pope Francis and considered to be one of the greatest European historical novels. The Betrothed is a vigorous portrayal of enduring passion, and an exploration of love, power and faith that presents a whirling panorama of 17th century Italian life.
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One of Charles Dickens’s most critically admired novels, this story of a monumental and life-consuming court case features one of his most vast and varied casts of colorful characters.
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A departure from Evelyn Waugh's normally comic theater, Brideshead Revisited concerns the tale of Charles Ryder, a captain in the British Army in post-World War I England. Unlike Waugh's previous narrators, Ryder is an intelligent man, looking back on much of his life from his current post in Oxford. He strikes a special friendship with Lord Sebastian Flyte as the setting moves to the Brideshead estate and a baroque castle that recalls England's prior standing in the world. Ryder falls for Flyte's sister while families, politics and religions collide. What makes the book extraordinary is Waugh's sharp, vivid style and his use of dialect and minor characters. This is one of Waugh's finest accomplishments and a superb book.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine has been translated into more languages than any Latin writings except Virgil's. Now this great classic appears in a distinguished new translation for the modern reader by celebrated translator, John K. Ryan.
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By Hilaire Belloc
Belloc shows that the Crusades were a titanic struggle between Christian civilization and "the Turk," savage Mongols who had embraced Islam. He explains the practical reasons why the Crusaders initially succeeded and why they ultimately failed then he predicts the re-emergence of Islam, since Christendom failed to destroy it in the 12th century. Makes history come alive and gives a rare, true appreciation of Christendom and of our Catholic forefathers!
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Death Comes for the Archbishop is among Willa Cather's most famous works. It follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe, New Mexico, subsequent to the Mexican War.
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Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly
conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering
emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves
inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War.
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In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.
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One of the most important philosophy titles published in the 20th century, Josef Pieper’s Leisure, the Basis of Culture is
more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than 50 years ago. This edition also includes Pieper's
work The Philosophical Act.
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The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman’s journey
through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned
translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer’s
original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an
Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer’s students.
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The first book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy.
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This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition.
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The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy.
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This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin," all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age.
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The final book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy.
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