Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
- ISBN-10
- 1642290815
- ISBN-13
- 9781642290813
- Series
- Literature
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-05-15
- Publisher
- Ignatius Press
- Author
- Joseph Pearce
Description
In Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know, Joseph Pearce provides a survey of literary works of which all Catholics should be aware. Beginning with Homer and Virgil, the book progresses chronologically through the greatest works of all time, including Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Dickens, Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien and Lewis.
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