Anthony Esolen

Calm in Chaos

Christian Living

“There is no other writer in the world like Fr. Rutler. If you want to know about King Charles II, saints and demons, World War II, or even those odd fellows named Madison and Jefferson, go not to Harvard but to Fr. Rutler, and he will bring them to life for you.”

Christendom Lost and Found

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“In these deeply personal and precisely expressed meditations, Father McTeigue leads us along a pilgrimage of hope. Without Christ, man attains little of lasting worth—no Bach, no Dante, no Michelangelo. But Christ calls, and McTeigue repeats the call, begging us to consider how much we have lost, to recover what we have squandered or forgotten, and to be on the way once again—to Calvary, and the risen Christ.”

Diary of a Country Priest

Fiction

“Bernanos’ book is one of the most profound psychological novels ever written, to be ranked beside those of Dostoyevsky. It is a piercing examination of the spiritual life of an innocent man whose faith in God, and whose unpretentious attempts at charity, permit him to read the souls of others, though he himself is hardly aware of how rare the gift is. Tobin's translation is lucid and powerfully moving, and the restoration of so many pages of the original novel is, for this reader, a great and unexpected gift.”

Doors in the Walls of the World

Philosophy

“Kreeft is ready always to give reasons for the wonder that is in him. The proper philosophy, the door-flinging-open philosophy, does not reduce my thoughts about God to atoms, but splits the atom and sees in it the fire of God's power and love. Or, to put it in the words of the Psalmist, 'I rejoiced when I heard them say, Let us go up to the house of the Lord.'”

Frankenstein

Fiction

“For many years I've avoided recent "critical" editions, stuffed and padded as they are with political faddists and special interest hacks. What a delight to find an edition of a work of literary art treated with the reverence, the critical tact, and the wonder its beauty and wisdom demand!”

King Lear

Arts & Literature

“For many years I've avoided recent "critical" editions, stuffed and padded as they are with political faddists and special interest hacks. What a delight to find an edition of a work of literary art treated with the reverence, the critical tact, and the wonder its beauty and wisdom demand!”

Man of the House

Men

“With wit and flair and a manly willingness to face the facts of life, Wiley shows us how to have a real household ​rather than a chilly wayside inn, and how to help build again the real local communities that require such households for their existence. Without a recovery of manhood, it is not going to happen. Pastors, this book is for you, too.”

The Voice of the Church at Prayer

Preaching & Worship

“We Catholics who have long bemoaned the banality of modern translations of Scripture and of the liturgy have heard, by way of justification, that Jesus spoke and prayed in the same language one would use to buy wine and grain, or chat with a neighbor over the wall; and that Saint Jerome in his Vulgate translation, and those who composed the earliest Christian prayers and hymns, did much the same. We have suspected it was not so, and Michael Lang has now vindicated us. With admirable scholarship and sensitivity to the wide range of registers, including the sacred, that any vernacular language will possess, Lang shows us how the scriptures established for Christians a language of their own. This is a brilliant work, careful in its argumentation and overwhelming in the wealth of evidence brought forth. Would that we had had it forty years ago!”

Wuthering Heights

Arts & Literature

“For many years I've avoided recent "critical" editions, stuffed and padded as they are with political faddists and special interest hacks. What a delight to find an edition of a work of literary art treated with the reverence, the critical tact, and the wonder its beauty and wisdom demand!”