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Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis' honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings.
C.S. Lewis (Author), Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham (Narrator)
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This world history is not dominated by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science.
E. H. Gombrich, E.H. Gombrich, Gerald Mcsorley (Author), Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham (Narrator)
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In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success. It is now an international bestseller and available in almost thirty languages across the world. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the Stone Age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.
E. H. Gombrich, Gerald Mcsorley (Author), Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham (Narrator)
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A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L. Rowse
A.L. Rowse, who died in 1997, was the author of a vast number of books, all of them readable and most of them fiercely arrayed against what he considered to be declining standards of manners, morals, and politics. He was more than a mere curmudgeon, though. His background was extraordinary: from a working-class family, he got a scholarship to Oxford, and from there was elected to All Souls College, the most exclusive of all faculties. He was a Shakespearean scholar who identified the Dark Lady of the sonnets, a historian of vast scope, and a biographer and memoirist, most notably of his beloved Cornwall. He never shied from controversy, and tore great chunks out of other writers in print. In short, Rowse led a fascinating life that bears reading about.
Richard Ollard (Author), Geoffrey Howard (Narrator)
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A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is “the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read” (Newsweek). Based on previously unpublished documents, diaries, notes, photographs, and dramatic interviews with Hitler’s colleagues and associates, this is the definitive biography of one of the most despised yet fascinating figures of the twentieth century. Eminently readable and painstakingly documented, it is a work that will not soon be forgotten. “The first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read. Much that is new or little known…a marvel of fact.”—Newsweek
John Toland (Author), Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham (Narrator)
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Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel. In it he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a twenty-five-year struggle against overwhelming odds. Unhappily married to a bitter and hateful Malayan wife, Almayer refuses to accept the financial ruin which he has precipitated. Instead, he dreams of fantastic wealth and a return to the civilization of his youth, accompanied by his loving daughter, Nina. Almayer's Folly was published in 1895, and it became the first in a long series of novels and stories including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, and Under Western Eyes, which have distinguished Conrad in the top rank of English stylists. The romance and adventure of Conrad's own life form the basis for his incomparable novels of the sea and the magical Eastern islands.
Joseph Conrad (Author), Geoffrey Howard (Narrator)
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Set in Malaya, Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel. In it he charts the decline of a Dutch merchant after a twenty-five-year struggle against overwhelming odds. Unhappily married to a bitter and hateful Malayan wife, Almayer refuses to accept the financial ruin which he has precipitated. Instead, he dreams of fantastic wealth and a return to the civilization of his youth, accompanied by his loving daughter, Nina. Almayer's Folly was published in 1895, and it became the first in a long series of novels and stories including Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, and Under Western Eyes, which have distinguished Conrad in the top rank of English stylists. The romance and adventure of Conrad's own life form the basis for his incomparable novels of the sea and the magical Eastern islands. "The human heart as recorded in Mr. Conrad's pages is the human heart of an immense number of men in all ages and in all climes." -Ford Madox Ford
Joseph Conrad (Author), Geoffrey Howard (Narrator)
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This volume of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis is part of a larger collection, C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces. In addition to his many books, letters, and poems, C. S. Lewis wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but also on ethical issues and the nature of literature and storytelling. Within these pages is a treasure trove of Lewis' reflections on diverse topics. This volume includes 1. Christianity and Culture2. Evil and God3. The Weight of Glory4. Miracles5. Dogma and the Universe6. 'Horrid Red Things'7. Religion: Reality or Substitute?8. Myth Became Fact9. Religion and Science10. Christian Apologetics11. Work and Prayer12. Religion without Dogma?13. The Decline of Religion14. On Forgiveness15. The Pain of Animals16. Petitionary Prayer17. On Obstincy in Belief18. What Christmas Means to Me19. The Psalms20. Religion and Rocetry21. The Efficacy of Prayer22. Fern-Seed and Elephants23. The Language of Religion24. Transposition
C.S. Lewis (Author), Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham (Narrator)
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Beau Geste is the world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage and treachery. It is the thrilling story of three men who brave the hellish brutality and ruthless savagery of the French Foreign Legion to protect the honor of a woman they love. "A shot rings out. The Arabs surge forward under a savage fusillade of heavy fire. Nearer and nearer they come, shouting with hate and blood lust." - from the book
P. C. Wren (Author), Geoffrey Howard (Narrator)
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Beau Geste is a world-famous novel of suspense and adventure, love and glory, courage and treachery. It is the thrilling story of three men who braved the hellish brutality and ruthless savagery of the French Foreign Legion to protect the honor of a woman they loved more than their lives.
P. C. Wren (Author), Geoffrey Howard (Narrator)
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C. S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
What did C. S. Lewis think about Truth, Goodness, and Beauty? The fifteen essays collected here explore these three major philosophical themes from the writings of Lewis. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Lewis' philosophical thinking on arguments for Christianity, the character of God, theodicy, moral goodness, heaven and hell, a theory of literature, and the place of the imagination. Edited by David J. Baggett, Gary R. Habermas, and Jerry L. Walls; Foreword by Tom Morris "The essays in this collection cast plenty of light on the thinking of the man who was probably the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century."-Church Newspaper
David Baggett, David J. Baggett, Gary R. Habermas, Jerry L. Walls (Author), Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham (Narrator)
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David Livingstone: Man of Prayer and Action
Written just forty years after David Livingstone's death, this admiring account of the famous missionary's life and work takes us deep into the "dark continent" of nineteenth-century Africa, where he labored to bring "Christianity, commerce and civilization." A national hero in Victorian Britain, Livingstone earned fame as an explorer and scientific investigator, an antislavery crusader, and imperial reformer, as well as in the role of a Protestant missionary and martyr who eventually died in Africa of malaria. "In those forty years great and astounding changes have been witnessed in the Continent which is associated with his fame...But nothing that has happened since has diminished by a single laurel the wreath he won, and will wear for ever...Livingstone is greatest, not as a scientist, nor an explorer, but as a man and a missionary." (from the book)
C. Silvester Horne (Author), Geoffrey Howard, Ralph Cosham (Narrator)
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