Joseph Pearce Books
Benedict XVI: Defender of the Faith
Pope Benedict XVI will go down in Church history as one of the greatest popes. In this heartfelt defense of Pope Benedict’s words and works, a tribute to his life and legacy and a homage to his sanity and sanctity, Joseph Pearce’s biography provides an unforgettable encounter with this great historical figure…
Candles in the Dark: The Authorized Biography of Fr. Ho Lung and the Missionaries of the Poor
Father Richard Ho Lung, M.O.P.—poet, teacher, musician—is the founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, one of the fastest growing religious orders in the world. Known as the “reggae priest,” Fr. Ho Lung had a hit single and critically acclaimed musical…
Classic Literature Made Simple
In this work, literary expert Joseph Pearce takes the reader on a guided tour of fifty great works of literature. The author of over thirty books, Pearce uses his experience of teaching literature at college level for over twenty years to show the reader the moral dimension of each work. He shows how each work presents a mystical mirror…
C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church
C. S. Lewis, the great British novelist and Christian apologist, has been credited by many-including the author-for aiding their journey to the Catholic Church. For this reason, it is often perplexing that Lewis himself never became Catholic. In C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church, Joseph Pearce delves into Lewis’s life, writings, and spiritual influences to shed light on the matter…
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions
This book tells the story of Christendom over two millennia, focusing on what was good, bad, and beautiful in each century. These three threads run through the heart of every person, revealing the pattern of our individual lives. These very same threads bind…
Heroes of the Catholic Reformation
The Protestant Reformation began five hundred years ago, accompanied by an age of turmoil and secularism we can recognize even in our own time. Rather than shrinking from the crisis, the Catholic Church responded with even deeper, and more genuine, reform. We can do the same today…
Literary Converts
Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of the greatest writers in the English language: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Graham Greene, Edith Sitwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien.
Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
Part of the What Every Catholic Should Know series, this book is an insightful introduction to the world’s rich depository of stories. It directs the reader back to The Story—the Story of Salvation History—because this is what great literature does… Also available in Paperback and eBook formats.
The Quest for Shakespeare
Joseph Pearce presents a stimulating and vivid biography of the world’s most revered writer that is sure to be controversial. Unabashedly provocative, with scholarship, insight and keen observation, Pearce strives to separate historical fact from fiction about the beloved Bard…
Race with the Devil: My Journey from Radical Hatred to Rational Love
Before he was the world’s foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British nationalist, white-supremacist group. Pearce and his cohorts were at the center of the racial and nationalist tensions—often violent—that swirled around London in the late 1970s and early ’80s. Eventually Pearce became a top member of the National Front and the editor of its newspaper, The Bulldog. He was a full-time revolutionary.
Shakespeare on Love
“Star-crossed” Romeo and Juliet are Shakespeare’s most famous lovers and perhaps the most well-known lovers in literary history. Though the young pair has been held up as a romantic ideal, the play is a tragedy, ending in death. What then, asks Pearce, is Shakespeare saying about his protagonists?
Through Shakespeare’s Eyes: Seeing the Catholic Presence in the Plays
Fulfilling the promise he made in his previous book, The Quest for Shakespeare, bestselling literary writer Joseph Pearce analyzes in this volume three of Shakespeare’s immortal plays, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet and King Lear, in order to uncover the Bard’s Catholic beliefs.
Twelve Great Books
After learning the true meaning of the word “civilization”—a society rooted in truth—the reader is taken on a tour of twelve of the most important books ever written, from Augustine to Shakespeare to the masterpieces of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Each work played a role, for better or for worse, in shaping the civilized world…
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton
Through years of meticulous research and access to the literary estate of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce presents a major biography of a 20th century literary giant, providing a great deal of important information on GKC never before published. This is a thoroughly readable and delightful biography…