Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Learn about everything from the Greek epics to Shakespeare’s plays to Tolkien’s famous trilogy. Visit Dante’s Italy, Cervantes’s Spain, Dostoevsky’s Russia, and Jane Austen’s England along the way.
Part of the What Every Catholic Should Know series, this book is an insightful introduction to the world’s rich depository of stories. It directs the reader back to The Story—the Story of Salvation History—because this is what great literature does. Great literature directs us back to the Storyteller, God himself. Allow Joseph Pearce to be your joyful guide on this brief pilgrimage through the literature every Catholic should know.
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- Teaches about everything from the Greek epics to Shakespeare’s plays.
- Directs the reader back to The Story.
- Guides on this brief pilgrimage through the literature every Catholic should know.
I will recommend Pearce's compelling new study to every student whom I teach.
— Jonathan Thorndike, PhD, Professor and Senior Fellow, Belmont University Honors Program
This book is an invaluable resource.
— David Lyle Jeffrey, FRSC, Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities, Baylor University
This book is a treat for the novice and the lover of Great Books alike, and a humanizing call for Catholics to draw on all the rich and ample resources of our Western literary tradition.
— Daniel J. Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship, Assumption College
- Title: Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
- Author: Joseph Pearce
- Series: What Every Catholic Should Know
- Publisher: Ignatius
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Catholic
- Resource ID: LLS:LTWHTVRYSHLDKNW
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-08T12:54:45Z