Fiction: Christian from The Owl at the Bridge

Heritage Press, NY [c1960]. Hard Cover. "Many writers of historical novels have matched and bettered the romantic and sentimental features of Wallace's novels, they have drawn characters more complex and written dialogue less wooden than his; but his descriptive passages, in their totality and variety, remain unsurpassed." xxii, 486 p., illus., color plates, 26.5 cm.; red, white &… Saber más sobre este artículo

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. [ix], 533 p.; 24 cm. "This novel [is] based on legends of the years following Christ's crucifixion. [It] describes the life of Basil, the artisan who fashioned the silver chalice, a frame meant to hold the... cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper". Maps on endpapers. This… Saber más sobre este artículo

Philadelphia: Ed. Barrington and Geo. D. Haswell, [ca. 1848?]. Hard Cover. 420 pages (A-2M 12); 18.5 cm. Télémaque was written to educate, and well into the 19th century was used a text to teach both the French language and Christian morality. Generations of French learned manners from it (this was the one book Madame Bovary read while in the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Princeton UP, 1993.. Hard Cover. 2 vols: 464; 464 p. Legenda Aurea in English. "Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete… Saber más sobre este artículo