The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century

6 best books like The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century (Perry Miller): Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith, Andy Catlett: Early Travels, Jayber Crow, Hannah Coulter

Brighton Rock

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0099478471

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear,...

The Heart of the Matter

Author	Graham Greene
ISBN	0099478420

In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for his wife, Louise. Already oppressed by the appalling climate, frustrated...

The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

Author	Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
ISBN	1884527388

Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make a difference in the world. There,...

Andy Catlett: Early Travels

Author	Wendell Berry
ISBN	1593761368

Berry opens this latest installment of the Port William series with young Andy Catlett preparing to visit a place he'd been to many times before, though this would be an adventure he will take very seriously. Nine years old, Andy embarks on the trip by bus, alone for the first time. He decides it will...

Jayber Crow

Author	Wendell Berry
ISBN	1582431604

"This is a book about Heaven," says Jayber Crow, "but I must say too that . . . I have wondered sometimes if it would not finally turn out to be a book about Hell." It is 1932 and he has returned to his native Port William to become the town's barber.

Orphaned at age ten, Jayber Crow's acquaintance with...

Hannah Coulter

Author	Wendell Berry
ISBN	1593760787

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers each of her two husbands, and all places and community connections threatened...