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What the Bells Sang. Essays and Reviews
In What The Bells Essays and Reviews essayist Edward Short writes with his usual insight and brio on a range of historical, literary and Newmanian matters.
Here are essays on the poets Thomas Hardy and Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling and T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Jennings; on the historians G.M. Trevelyan, R.W. Southern and Andrew Roberts; on the novelists Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh; on the biographers James Grant, Richard Greene and John Batchelor; and on such brilliant thinkers as Edmund Burke, Christopher Dawson and C.S. Lewis. A number of pieces on Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman round out this rich, elegant miscellany.
A companion volume to Edward Short's first essay collection, Adventures in the Book Pages , this new compilation will delight all readers interested in history, literature and the most eloquent of Catholic saints.
Reviews of Edward Short's first book of
Adventures in the Book Pages is "a fine collection"—"witty," "wise," and "entertaining." Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald
"If you have never encountered author, reviewer and essayist Edward Short, you are in for a real adventure in the pages of this book; and if you know his work already, you know what to expect from this erudite, articulate writer of both catholic and Catholic interests ... His themes are wide-ranging ... His tone is always judicious ... his style eminently readable." Richard Ormrod, Faith Magazine
"Edward Short is ... a gentleman scholar, enjoyably opinionated, engagingly well- informed, and, flatteringly, he expects his readers to have similar qualities ...The volume is thoroughly catholic ... I was duly beguiled." James McGlone, Chesterton Review
" Adventures in the Book Pages is a romp and a marvel. I can't decide which is its most winning attribute, erudition, range or elegance of expression. So let's call it a photo finish." James Grant, author of The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
Here are essays on the poets Thomas Hardy and Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling and T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Jennings; on the historians G.M. Trevelyan, R.W. Southern and Andrew Roberts; on the novelists Anthony Trollope, Henry James, Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh; on the biographers James Grant, Richard Greene and John Batchelor; and on such brilliant thinkers as Edmund Burke, Christopher Dawson and C.S. Lewis. A number of pieces on Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman round out this rich, elegant miscellany.
A companion volume to Edward Short's first essay collection, Adventures in the Book Pages , this new compilation will delight all readers interested in history, literature and the most eloquent of Catholic saints.
Reviews of Edward Short's first book of
Adventures in the Book Pages is "a fine collection"—"witty," "wise," and "entertaining." Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald
"If you have never encountered author, reviewer and essayist Edward Short, you are in for a real adventure in the pages of this book; and if you know his work already, you know what to expect from this erudite, articulate writer of both catholic and Catholic interests ... His themes are wide-ranging ... His tone is always judicious ... his style eminently readable." Richard Ormrod, Faith Magazine
"Edward Short is ... a gentleman scholar, enjoyably opinionated, engagingly well- informed, and, flatteringly, he expects his readers to have similar qualities ...The volume is thoroughly catholic ... I was duly beguiled." James McGlone, Chesterton Review
" Adventures in the Book Pages is a romp and a marvel. I can't decide which is its most winning attribute, erudition, range or elegance of expression. So let's call it a photo finish." James Grant, author of The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
520 pages, Paperback
Published March 6, 2023
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