Book Review: Phèdre by Jean Racine
How this striking classic of the French stage has much to tell us about the Classical world and our world.
Tag: literature canon
Book Review: Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
“The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God.”
– Psalms 52:1
Book Review: The Lusíads by Luís Vaz de Camões
“There will be no lack of Christian daring / In this little house of Portugal.”
– The Lusíads VII. 14.
Book Review: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
“Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?”
– Job 40:20
Book Review: Lord of the World by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson
“And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.”
– 1 John 4:3
Book Review: Idylls of the King by Lord Alfred Tennyson
“If I lose myself, I save myself!”
– Galahad
(HG 178)
Book Download: The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“Everything lies contained in that building,” he went on, waving his hand to designate the church; “the scriptures, theology, the history of the human race, set forth in a broad outline. Thanks to the science of symbolism a pile of stones may be a macrocosm.”
Book Review: The Cathedral by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“I will worship towards thy holy temple, and I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy name above all.”
– Psalm 137:2
Book Download: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“No, the more I think of her,” he cried, “the more I think her prodigious, unique, the more I am convinced that she alone holds the truth, that outside her are only weaknesses of mind, impostures, scandals. The Church is the divine breeding ground, the heavenly dispensary of souls…”
Book Review: En Route by Joris-Karl Huysmans
“But it was fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found.” – Luke 15:32