Classics

Views and reviews of the “classic” Catholic novels and short stories. This page is indexed alphabetically by Title.

• "In Their Own Words": BBC video interviews with famous British novelists
• 1981 Brideshead Revisited TV adaptation, 30 years later
• A Canticle for Liebowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
• Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
• Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor Caldwell
• Death Comes for the Archbishop as a Catholic Novel
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
• Decline and Fall (1928) by Evelyn Waugh
• Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos
• Helena by Evelyn Waugh
• Helena by Evelyn Waugh, , U.K. review
• Loss and Gain: The Story of a Convert by Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman
• Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Mr. Blue, by Myles Connolly
• Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
• On the Novel with a Purpose by G.K. Chesterton
• One of Ours by Willa Cather
• Parade's End TV Adaptation in the works
• Park by John Gray
• Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction by Farrell O'Gorman
• Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
• Son of Dust by H.F.M. Prescott
• Symposium by Muriel Spark
• The American by Henry James
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis
• The Children of Men by P.D. James
• The Curse of the Darkling Mill by Otfried Preussler
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Keys of Middle Earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lady Paramount (1902) by Henry Harland
• The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
• The Loved One, by Evelyn Waugh
• The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
• The Mating Season (1949) by P.G. Wodehouse
• The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
• The Necromancers, by Robert Hugh Benson
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
• The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope
• The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Song of the Scaffold by Gertrud von le Fort
• The Woman of the Pharisees, by Francois Mauriac
• Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C.S. Lewis
• Vipers' Tangle (1932) by Francois Mauriac
• War in Heaven by Charles Williams
• Ann Begley on Muriel Spark in America magazine
• Cardinal Newman: first Catholic novelist to be beatified
• Christianity is a Murder Mystery
• Communication, Consecration and the Catholic Novel by Glenn Statile
• David Lodge on Muriel Spark
• Dirda on Chesterton
• Fr. James Martin on "the cult of Catholic novelists"
• Free classic Catholic fiction e-books
• Graham Greene International Festival 2010
• Hail, English Lit Majors!
• Michael P. Murphy on the Theological Dialectic in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy
• New Film Adaptation of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock
• Nicholas Shakespeare on the "Voice" of Graham Greene
• Recalling Bernanos
• The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
• The Earliest Christian Fiction
• The Samurai with the Cross: The Martyrs of Japan