The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie
By: Jonathan S. McIntosh
4.43
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
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1. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis , Pauline Baynes
4.09
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
NARNIA... the world of wicked dragons and magic spells, where the very best is brought out of even … read more
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"Courage, dear heart."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
"Adventures are never fun while you're having them."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
"Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."-C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
2. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
3. Alas, Babylon
By: Pat Frank
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United … read more
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4. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
By: Verlyn Flieger
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
J. R. R. Tolkien is perhaps best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it is in The S… read more
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5. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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6. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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7. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18
By: Joseph Loconte
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolki… read more
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8. The Lais of Marie de France
By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more
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9. Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full color ebook device, and in rich … read more
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"The help will come,"-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
"I don't want to hold you hand!"-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
"Things never happen the same way twice."-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
"And the feasts on the poop and the musicians."-C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
10. The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends
By: Humphrey Carpenter
4.08
Format: 581 pages, Hardcover
During the 1930s at Oxford, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams met regularly to discu… read more
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11. Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
John le Carre classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of interna… read more
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12. The Silmarillion
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith
4.01
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more
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"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
13. The Life of St. Anthony
By: E.A. Wallis Budge , Athanasius of Alexandria
3.98
Format: 212 pages,
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14. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (The History of Middle-Earth, #2)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tale of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dr… read more
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15. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, #1)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
The Book of Lost Tales 1 xxi, 345pp. THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, I, stands at the beginning of the enti… read more
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16. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more
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17. Tales from the Perilous Realm
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.03
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
'Four classic tales from the author of The Hobbit The fat and unheroic Farmer Giles of Ham is calle… read more
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"God is the Lord, of angels, and of men... and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Bet visą tą laiką Makaliukas Klajūnas laukė pasirodant paštininkės Klyksnės su naujienomis iš žemės (net maži šuniukai žino, kad tai dažniausiai žmogžudystės ir futbolo rungtynių rezultatai, bet kart…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling,…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
"Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the appetite for, nor obscure the perception of, scientific veracity. On the con…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, Tales from the Perilous Realm
18. Saint Thomas Aquinas
By: G.K. Chesterton , Anton C. Pegis
4.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
G.K. Chesterton's brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today a… read more
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19. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Unknown , Christopher Tolkien
3.33
Format: 194 pages, ebook
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20. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more
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21. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
By: Isabel Wilkerson
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Hardcover
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chroni… read more
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22. The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.36
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
A fantastic starter set for new Tolkien fans or readers interested in rediscovering the magic of Mi… read more
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23. Monologion and Proslogion with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm
By: Anselm of Canterbury , Gaunilo , Thomas Williams
4.40
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The Proslogion (also spelled Proslogium; English translation of title: Discourse on the Existence o… read more
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24. Paradise Lost
By: John Milton , John Leonard
3.84
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more
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"What hath night to do with sleep?"-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."-John Milton, Paradise Lost
25. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
By: C.S. Lewis
4.00
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more
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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)
26. A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy
By: Jason M. Baxter
4.48
Format: 224 pages, ebook
This accessible, Christian introduction to Dante also serves as a primer to the Divine Comedy, help… read more
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27. Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography
By: Holly Ordway
4.67
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work” and declar… read more
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28. Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit
By: Matthew Barrett
4.52
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
What if the Trinity we've been taught is not the Trinity of the Bible? In this groundbreaking book,… read more
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"It is one thing to say (as we have) that the economic reveals the immanent to a degree and in a specific way—the sending of the Son reflecting the eternal generation of the Son, for example. But it i…"-Matthew Barrett, Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit
29. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
By: Catherine McIlwaine
4.66
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The range of J. R. R. Tolkien’s talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and… read more
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30. The Nature of Middle-Earth
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
3.95
Format: 440 pages, Hardcover
First ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of… read more
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"It is also reflected in the commitment to the belief that everything, even Morgoth himself, was as created good, But that due to the free will possessed by every creature with a rational mind, they c…"-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Nature of Middle-Earth
31. The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie
By: Jonathan S. McIntosh
4.43
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
J. R. R. Tolkien was a profoundly metaphysical thinker, and one of the most formative influences on… read more
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