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Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
As a revelation of insight, literary craft and experience of life this book is triumphant. Father Benson is rich indeed in all that concerns the writer of fiction. This book…
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Maggie’s love for Laurie, and a night of sincere prayer, draw him back from the brink, and an encounter with the devil himself.
Robert Hugh Benson
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Sermon Notes by Robert Hugh Benson is a collection of sermons and homilies delivered by the author, a prominent Anglican priest and author in the early 20th century. The book…
Jack tossed him his case, opened the pouch, took out the letter and read it slowly through again: I am ashamed of you, sir. When you first told me of…
This collections brings together the supernatural stories in Robert H. Benson’s The Light Invisible and A Mirror of Shalott. Benson brings light fantasy and supernatural horror together, from the perspective…
Come Rack, Come Rope is a gripping historical novel which takes place during Queen Elizabeth I’s persecution of English Catholics. Based on the real sufferings of a real Catholic family…
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908.
Imagine a godless age, a time when all the world has fallen prey to soulless communism. This is the world that Christ comes to as He returns to us. This…
Mixing such seemingly incongruous elements as social satire, near-slapstick, and obsession with death, A Winnowing, first published in 1910, is the first of Robert Hugh Benson’s mainstream novels. An undeservedly…
Robert Hugh Benson (1871 - 1914) was the youngest son of the Archbishop of Canterbury. After college Benson was ordained as a priest in the Church of England. While on…
A collection of essays relating to his conversion to Catholicism.
R H Benson was a protestant priest who converted to Catholicism. His novels are often about religion. This classed as an ‘Apocalyptic’ novel
Among the best-known of Benson’s works, COME RACK! COME ROPE! tells of the suffering of Catholics under Elizabeth I of England, as shown through the eyes of one Catholic family…
Excerpt: …give me an answer quite at once, began Dick again presently, I’m perfectly willing to
Her theory of the universe as the girl who watched her now was beginning to find out was impregnable and unapproachable.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Unique among the works of Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), this short biographical sketch of St. Thomas a Becket, the holy blissful martyr, began as research for a historical novel. Becket’s…
The various plots, the political movements, and the closing scenes of Charles II’s life are here described with as much fidelity to truth as is compatible with historical romance.
A CENTURY BEFORE LEFT BEHIND THERE WAS LORD OF THE WORLD Imagine a godless age, a time when all the world has fallen prey to soulless communism. This is the…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
THE KING’S ACHIEVEMENT is an epic story set during the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII. It is Robert Hugh Benson’s second in a series intended to relate the…
A Mystery Play: In Honor Of The Nativity Of Our Lord is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson in 1908. The book is a play that revolves around the…
By What Authority? is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1904. It is a theological work that explores the question of authority in the Christian church…
""By What Authority?"" is a religious and philosophical book written by Robert Hugh Benson in 1904. The book explores the question of authority in the Catholic Church and the role…
Christ In The Church: A Volume Of Religious Essays is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1911. The book is a collection of essays that explore…
The Friendship of Christ is a spiritual book written by Robert Hugh Benson and first published in 1912. The book is centered on the idea of developing a personal relationship…
Paradoxes of Catholicism is a book written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1913. The book explores the paradoxical nature of Catholicism, examining various aspects of the religion that…
