Joseph Pearce Books

Beauteous Truth

Beauteous Truth explores the inextricable connection between the Good, the True and the Beautiful. It is a book that makes the necessary connections between faith and reason and between theology, philosophy, history and literature…

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…

Bilbo’s Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in The Hobbit

Bilbo’s quest to find and slay the dragon Smaug is a riveting tale of daring and heroism, but as renowned Tolkien scholar Joseph Pearce shows, it is not simply Bilbo’s journey; it is our journey too…

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…

Catholic Literary Giants

In Catholic Literary Giants, Joseph Pearce takes the reader on a dazzling tour of the creative landscape of Catholic prose and poetry. Covering the vast and impressive terrain from Dante…

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…

Death Comes for the War Poets

A Verse Tapestry

Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England

The Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century AD. England was evangelized in these early centuries to such an extent that, by the time the Romans withdrew…

Frodo’s Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings

Discover the Christian Meaning of The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings has been beloved for generations, selling million…

(Audiobook) Frodo’s Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings

Discover the Christian Meaning of The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings has been beloved for generations, selling millions…

Further Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia

Further Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia by acclaimed Catholic author Joseph Pearce invites readers to return with the eyes of an adult to C.S. Lewis’ magical…

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…

The Hobbit: Discovering Grace and Providence in Bilbo’s Adventures

In this companion course to The Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings, Professor Joseph Pearce highlights the “fundamentally religious and Catholic” nature…

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.

Merrie England: A Journey Through the Shire

Join Joseph Pearce on a journey into the real Shire—a voyage into the mysterious presence of an England which is more real than the one you are accustomed to seeing…

Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. At turns reviled or revered, depending on the audience, he was a razor sharp social commenter and…

Poems Every Catholic Should Know

Carefully curated and beautifully bound. An uplifting gift! This anthology provides some of the finest Christian verse written during the second millennium of…

Poems Every Child Should Know

Selected and accompanied by commentary from bestselling author and literature professor Joseph Pearce, this exciting collection of verse contains classic poems that every child should know to begin a poetic ascent towards God…

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?

Shakespeare’s Catholicism: A Critical Analysis of the Bard’s Life and Plays

In Shakespeare’s Catholicism, Joseph Pearce presents biographical and literary evidence proving the Bard’s adherence to the true Faith in a time of persecution…

Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile

Based on exclusive, personal interviews with Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Pearce’s biography of the renowned Russian dissident provides profound insight into a towering literary and political figure…

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.

Tolkien: Man and Myth

He may be the most popular writer of our age, but Tolkien is often misunderstood. This major new study of his life, his character, and his work reveals the facts and confronts the myths. It explores the man’s background and the culture in which he wrote…

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…

The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

Vilified by fellow Victorians for his sexuality and his dandyism, Oscar Wilde, the great poet, satirist and playwright, is hailed today, in some circles, as a progressive sexual liberator. But this image is not how Wilde saw himself…

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…