Adventures in the book pages essays and reviews
In Adventures in the Book Pages, Edward Short shares his insights into history, literature, music, art, religion, and biography from a refreshingly Catholic standpoint. Here are essays and reviews on Renaissance portraiture, Catholic poetry, the Great War, Europe entre deux guerres, and the Blue Pla...
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| Formato: | 991005362529706719 |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leominster :
Gracewing
2015
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| Edición: | First published in England |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Pública Episcopal del Seminario de Barcelona: | https://csuc-instb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,991002972859806707&tab=BPEBcat&search_scope=BPEB&vid=34CSUC_INSTB:BPEB&offset=0 |
| Sumario: | In Adventures in the Book Pages, Edward Short shares his insights into history, literature, music, art, religion, and biography from a refreshingly Catholic standpoint. Here are essays and reviews on Renaissance portraiture, Catholic poetry, the Great War, Europe entre deux guerres, and the Blue Plaques of London. There are also pieces on Ben Jonson, Samuel Johnson, W. M. Thackeray, Gerard Manley Hopkins, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, and Penelope Fitzgerald, as well as Henry V, Henry VIII, John Ruskin, A. W. N. Pugin, Henry Mayhew, Edward VII, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Winston Churchill, Kenneth Clark, Alec Guinness, John Osborne, Charles Arnold-Baker and the Queen Mother. And, last, but not least, an extended essay on Cardinal Newman and the idea of sanctity. |
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| Descripción Física: | vii, 455 pàgines ; 23 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Índex |
| ISBN: | 9780852448687 |
