The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
10 best books like The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor (Jonathan Rogers): A Long Fatal Love Chase, Virgil Wander, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, Wise Blood, A Circle of Quiet, The Light Princess, An Experiment in Criticism, The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0440223016 |
"I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom," cries Rosamond Vivian to her callous grandfather. A brooding stranger seduces her from the remote island onto his yacht. Trapped in a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit, she flees to Italy, France, Germany, from Paris garret to mental asylum,...
| Author | Leif Enger |
| ISBN | 0802128785 |
The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.
Midwestern movie house owner...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374508046 |
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At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered publications during her too-short lifetime. The keen writings comprising Mystery and Manners,...
| Author | Flannery O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0374530637 |
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher...
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0062545035 |
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I’d be surprised if the majority of readers have not read “A Wrinkle in Time.” It is undoubtedly her most loved book, although the road to a publisher was a rather long journey. Nevertheless, she did, and the rest is her story, part of which is contained...
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 1596440430 |
The Light Princess is a short story that is warm and humorous, with a surprisingly poignant conclusion. A princess doomed by a witch to lose her “gravity” results in a silly heroine that has neither physical nor spiritual weight. George MacDonald’s masterful teaching on the subject of sacrificial...
An Experiment in Criticism
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0521422817 |
Why do we read literature and how do we judge it? C.S. Lewis's classic analysis springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. Crucial to his notion of judging literature is a commitment to laying aside expectations...
Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature,...
| Author | Brad Gooch |
| ISBN | 0316000663 |
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote...
Introverted Mom: Your Guide to More Calm, Less Guilt, and Quiet Joy
| Author | Jamie C. Martin |
| ISBN | 0310354978 |
Motherhood is beautiful; motherhood is hard. All moms understand this paradoxical truth. Yet introverted mothers face unique challenges. When our quiet nature collides with our often loud role, frustration and guilt result. We wonder why motherhood feels at odds with our personality, and in our...
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole...
