An Introduction to Catholic Fiction and Poetry in English
Explore the best Catholic fiction and poetry in English with our curated list of books. Discover inspiring stories, profound themes, and timeless works that deepen faith and literature.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a …
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Murder in the Cathedral
by Thomas Stearns Eliot
The story of the murder of Thomas Ă Becket as seen through the eyes of the great poet.
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
Folger's Shakespeare Library presents these definitive editions of Shakespeare's classic tragedies, featuring scene-by-scene plot summaries, full explanatory notes, and much more. Original. (Plays/Drama)
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Cardinal Galsworthy
by Edward R. F. Sheehan
A handsome young British nobleman fathers a son before becoming an exemplary priest and a shrewd politician. He rises to cardinal with a taste for …
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Utopia
by Thomas More
Revised introduction; new chronology and further reading Translated with an Introduction by Paul Turner.
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Vatican
by Malachi Martin
A young Chicago-born priest is called to serve in Rome and is soon drawn into an international intrique involving bishops, bankers, and the highest levels …
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My Argument with the Gestapo
by Thomas Merton
Of the full-length prose works that Thomas Merton wrote before he entered the Cistercian Order in 1941, only My Argument with the Gestapo has survived--perhaps …
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The Third Man and The Fallen Idol
by Graham Greene
The Third Man is Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives …
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True Confessions
by John Gregory Dunne
When an unidentified murder victim found cut in two is nicknamed The Virgin Tramp, ambitious Monsignor Desmond Spellacy of the Los Angeles archdiocese and homicide …
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Selected Poems
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
A selection of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This book is part of a series aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist, and …
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The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy
Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss …
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The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
by Daniel Berrigan
Play depicting the trial of a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters who raided the offices of the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, and burned some …
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Morte D'Urban
by J.F. Powers
Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who …
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The …