Catholic Fiction

reviewed by John Murphy
Pagan Goddess…or Vague and Godless?
I first encountered Kate Chopin’s New Orleans-set novella, The Awakening, in a course on twentieth-century literature. I recall a sense of gratitude to the author for her book’s merciful brevity. The Awakening was on the curriculum because of the proto-feminist implications of the storyline. Quick summary (warning: spoilers […]

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BBC Audiobooks, 2005, unabridged, read by James Wilby 
reviewed by Rachel Murphy
Having been a devoted fan of Jane and Rochester since my mid-teens, I decided to give Bronte’s The Professor a try, on audiobook—though perhaps I was motivated even more by its narrator, the film actor James Wilby (Behind the Lines, A Tale of Two Cities).
The […]

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reviewed by Kevin Murphy 

The Menace of Oblivion
Everyman begins “around the grave.”  And it stays there for the course of its brief length, stewing in angst and mortal fear. Clearly, it is the work of a man coming to grips with his own mortality – a terrified […]

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