Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works

10 best books like Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Works (Gerard Manley Hopkins): The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Collected Poems, Bend Sinister, Copenhagen, The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, The Shorter Poems, Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Author	Wilfred Owen
ISBN	0811201325

Reposted November 4th, 2018 - in memory of November 4th, 1918, the poet's last battle!

I have been circling around World War I for a while now, reading novels that were published around 1915, such as The Voyage Out or Of Human Bondage, and poetry that referred back to that breaking point in history,...

At Swim-Two-Birds

Author

Flann O'Brien

A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel...

The Collected Poems

Author	Langston Hughes
ISBN	0679764089

"The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston Globe

Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared...

Bend Sinister

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0141185767

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist,...

Copenhagen

Author	Michael Frayn
ISBN	0385720793

For most people, the principles of nuclear physics are not only incomprehensible but inhuman. The popular image of the men who made the bomb is of dispassionate intellects who number-crunched their way towards a weapon whose devastating power they could not even imagine. But in his Tony Award-winning...

The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales

Author	Gerald of Wales
ISBN	0140443398

Gerald of Wales was one of the most dynamic and colorful churchmen of the 12th century. His JOURNEY describes a mission to Wales undertaken in 1188 by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Gerald as his companion. THE DESCRIPTION provides a picture of the day-to-day existence of ordinary Welshmen...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Author	Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN	0802829961

One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be "feminine." Sayers kept in mind that she was first of all a human being and aimed to be true not so much to her gender as to her humanity. The role of both men and...

God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

Author	C.S. Lewis
ISBN	0802808689

"Lewis struck me as the most thoroughly converted man I ever met," observes Walter Hooper in the preface to this collection of essays by C. S. Lewis. "His whole vision of life was such that the natural and the supernatural seemed inseparably combined."It is precisely this pervasive Christianity which...

The Shorter Poems

Author

Edmund Spenser

Although he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets. Spenser's shorter poems reveal his generic and stylistic versatility, his remarkable linguistic skill and his mastery of complex...

Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

Author	David Benedictus
ISBN	0525421602

It was eighty years ago, on the publication of The House at Pooh Corner, when Christopher Robin said good-bye to Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. Now they are all back in new adventures, for the first time approved by the Trustees of the Pooh Properties. This is a companion volume...

Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith

Author	Michael Reeves
ISBN	0830839836

In this brief and winsome book, Michael Reeves presents an introduction to the Christian faith that is rooted in the triune God. He takes cues from preachers and teachers down through the ages, setting key doctrines of creation, the person and work of Christ, and life in the Spirit into a simple framework...

The Ungrateful Refugee

Author	Dina Nayeri
ISBN	1948226421

A Finalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction

"Nayeri combines her own experience with those of refugees she meets as an adult, telling their stories with tenderness and reverence.” ―The New York Times Book Review

"Nayeri weaves her empowering personal story with those...