August 10, 2010

Great Catholic Novels

The Author

  • The Power and the Glory Graham Greene

    "How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Pow (...)

  • The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene

    "Scobie, a police officer serving in a wartime west-African state, is distrusted — being scrupulou (...)

  • The End of the Affair Graham Greene

    “One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody’s language.” —William Faulkn (...)

  • A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh

    "Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed (...)

  • Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh

    "One of Waugh's most famous books, Brideshead Revisited tells the story of the difficult love (...)

  • Decline and Fall Evelyn Waugh

    "Subtitled 'A Novel of Many Manners, ' Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the 'heathen (...)

  • The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O'Connor

    "Southern gothic novel by Flannery O'connor, published in 1960. It is the story of a young man's str (...)

  • Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor

    "Wise Blood is a comedy with a fierce, Old Testament soul. Flannery O'Connor has no truck with such (...)

  • The Moviegoer Walker Percy

    "This elegantly written account of a young man's search for signs of purpose in the universe is one (...)

  • Love in the Ruins Walker Percy

    "A great adventure...So outrageous and so real, one is left speechless."--Chicago Sun Times (via Ama (...)

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