Tolkien: Man and Myth: A Literary Life
7 best books like Tolkien: Man and Myth: A Literary Life (Joseph Pearce): The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, The Ball and the Cross, Pan Tadeusz, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, The Inklings of Oxford: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their Friends, The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'.
Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and...
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0486288056 |
Like much of G. K. Chesterton's fiction, The Ball and the Cross is both witty and profound, cloaking serious religious and philosophical inquiry in sparkling humor and whimsy. Serialized in the British publication The Commonwealth in 1905-06, Chesterton's second novel first appeared in book form...
| Author | Adam Mickiewicz |
| ISBN | 0781800331 |
An epic tale of country life among the Polish and Lithuanian gentry in 1811-1812, PAN TADEUSZ by Adam Mickiewicz is perhaps Poland's best-known literary work and has been translated into almost every European language. This bilingual edition, with side by side Polish and English, features Kenneth...
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
| Author | Herbert P. Bix |
| ISBN | 0060931302 |
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial...
| Author | Harry Lee Poe |
| ISBN | 0310285038 |
Oxford s fabled streets echo with the names of such key figures in English history as Edmund Halley, John Wycliffe, and John and Charles Wesley. Of more recent times are those of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the other members of the renowned literary circle to which they belonged, the Inklings. What...
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
| Author | Humphrey Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0395276284 |
Overall, it’s worth reading if you are studying Lewis. He does talk about the other men (for example, there were also some interesting details about Warnie and John Wain that I hadn’t seen before). But it’s half an Inklings discussion, and half a biography of C. S. Lewis. The author admits this...
The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
| Author | Robert Sarah |
| ISBN | 1621641910 |
In a time when there is more and more noise, and technology and materialism continue to exert their hold on us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The world generates so much noise that seeking moments of silence only becomes more necessary. For Cardinal Sarah,...
