The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a white woman in a convenience store. The killers were...

Innocence Once Lost gathers religious classics around the fraught passage from moral simplicity to knowledge, sin, doubt, repentance, and grace. Its capacious selection moves among epic vision, allegory, parable, realist fiction, philosophical provocation, devotional reflection, satire, and romance, placing medieval and modern religious imaginations in productive tension. Pilgrimage narratives, infernal journeys, conversion dramas, and fables of social conscience stand out as recurring for...

The journal of a successful novelist who has lost the power to write, kept as the years pass and the fire on the altar refuses to relight. Benson wrote the words to Land of Hope and Glory, was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and kept a diary of four million words — the longest in English. This 1907 book is fiction shaped exactly like his own depression, and it is the most honest thing he published. Fifty-eight plates of interiors and portraits by painters including Gwen John and Wi...

A graphic novel biography about one of America’s most heinous race crimes, Framing Emmett Till: Exposing Dark Fear follows an anonymous Black writer as he investigates Emmett’s murder, confronting not only the unresolved truths of the past, but the ways Black pain is consumed, reshaped, and monetized in the present.Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was abducted and lynched in August 1955 in Mississippi, his body thrown into th...

The "Religious Classics - Boxed Set" is an illustrious exploration of literary and theological thought, weaving together a tapestry of narratives that address the fundamental questions of spiritual existence. This anthology spans centuries of literary craftsmanship, drawing upon a diverse array of literary styles ranging from the allegorical richness of Dante Alighieri to the philosophical provocations of Friedrich Nietzsche. Amidst the vivid landscapes of moral and metaphysical inquiry, s...

'The Greatest Religious Novels of All Time' stands as a monumental anthology, showcasing a diverse array of seminal works that interrogate and celebrate the nuanced contours of religious experience. This collection spans a wide range of literary styles—from the allegorical fervor of John Bunyan to the existential inquiries of Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the satirical sharpness of Voltaire. The anthology not only reflects the rich tapestry of historical religious discourse but also encapsulates ...

The 'Religious Classics - Boxed Set' is a profound collection that weaves together seminal works from authors renowned for their exploration of religious and philosophical themes. The anthology spans a spectrum of literary styles from the allegorical to the existential, presenting readers with a rich mosaic of thought from different eras and geographical locales. Integrated within this collection are masterpieces that interrogate the human experience through the lens of faith, morality, an...

A novel which concerns the love story of a don, and which also offers insight into the quest to understand religion.

I have been a good deal indoors lately, and I have been amusing myself by looking through old papers and diaries of my own. It seems to me that, though the record is a very uneventful one, there is yet a certain unity throughout—I can hardly call it a conscious, definite aim, or dignify it by the name of a philosophy. But I have lived latterly with a purpose, and on a plan that has gradually shaped itself and become more coherent. It was formerly my ambition to write a book, and it has gon...

17 Complete Works of Arthur Christopher BensonAt LargeEscape and Other EssaysEssaysFather PayneFrom a College WindowHughJoyous GardMemoirs of Arthur HamiltonPaul the Minstrel and Other StoriesThe Altar FireThe Child of The DawnThe Isles of SunsetThe Silent IsleThe Thread of GoldThe Upton LettersWater SpringsWhere No Fear Was

From the introduction:The book that follows is an attempt, or rather a hundred attempts, to sketch some of the details of life, seen from a simple plane enough, and with no desire to conform it to a theory, or to find anything very definite in it, or to omit anything because it did not fit in with prejudices or predilections. The only unity of mood which it reflects is the unity of purpose which comes from a decision. I had chosen a life which seemed to me then to be wholesome, tem...

A classic collection of essays by Arthur Christopher Benson.