Marshall Brown

Handel’s Messiah

Arts & Literature

“As a lover of Handel’s Messiah, I have always been intrigued by the wide appeal of a work that is so overtly Christian. Athnos’ book helped me to understand how Handel deployed musical forms, often subversively, to engage the human heart (or to use the Baroque term, our ‘affects’) and even bypass our cognitive ‘defenses.’ More importantly, Athnos’ book has helped me better experience something I already enjoyed. It can do the same for you.”

Master Kierkegaard: Fall / Winter / Spring 1847–1848

Fiction

“Through the changing of the seasons in a year of revolutions, a maidservant reflects on the Bible . . . and the anguish and hope of her master, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Ellen Brown has crafted an understated, heartfelt, and moving meditation on the enigmatic man, religion, the position of women in society, and a life of exile and liberation.”

Master Kierkegaard: The Complete Journals

Fiction

“Through the changing of the seasons in a year of revolutions, a maidservant reflects on the Bible . . . and the anguish and hope of her master, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. Ellen Brown has crafted an understated, heartfelt, and moving meditation on the enigmatic man, religion, the position of women in society, and a life of exile and liberation.”