The Author
Joseph Pearce
Why listen to me?
- ✓I teach as Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University, edit the St. Austin Review, and serve as series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions.
- ✓I am the only living writer to have published full-length books on all five of these men.
- ✓I sat across from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his home near Moscow and listened to him speak of faith and suffering.
- ✓I was twice imprisoned for inciting racial hatred. Chesterton converted me. I tell that story in my memoir Race with the Devil, and again across these five letters.
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The Five Companions
Who you will meet.
Five writers who shaped the literary imagination of the past hundred years.
Day 1
G. K. Chesterton
The Apostle of Wonder
I felt as if magic must have a meaning, and meaning must have some one to mean it.
Why astonishment is the only rational response to existence, and how a journalist with a pencil broke the prison walls of modern materialism.
Day 2
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Faithful Sub-Creator
I am a Christian, and in fact a Roman Catholic.
The hidden Christianity at the heart of Middle-earth, and the single date in The Lord of the Rings that unlocks the entire epic.
Day 3
C. S. Lewis
The Reluctant Convert
The most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
How the most reluctant atheist in Oxford became Christianity's most beloved twentieth-century defender, and why he stopped a step short of Rome.
Day 4
Hilaire Belloc
The Neglected Genius
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there's always laughter and good red wine.
The thunderous Catholic intellectual whose pen Chesterton himself called the finest in England, and whose memory the modern world has tried to forget.
Day 5
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Saint from the Gulag
Men have forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.
What a Soviet prison-camp survivor saw about the modern West that the West has never been able to unsee and why his warning is more urgent now than when he gave it.
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Joseph Pearce
Five Christian Writers Who Changed My Life
Chesterton · Tolkien · Lewis · Belloc · Solzhenitsyn
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