Daily Telegraph Book of Comfort - Hardcover

Howse, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826472974 ISBN 13: 9780826472977

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2004

Synopsis

This is the alternative to Prozac for a generation which has lost the meaning of the word 'comfort'. This new anthology from Christopher Howse is a sequel to his successful Best Sermons Ever and Best Spiritual Reading Ever. It contains more than eighty extracts, in prose and verse, from spiritual writers of a Christian background in the English language tradition. - this means British and American authors or classical authors whose writing were adopted by that tradition. The extracts are varied with shorter prayers and poems. The most celebrated book of comfort to date was published by Elizabeth Goudge thirty years ago. It is an area in which women writers have been particularly strong, and in this new book women writers feature prominently, including Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, Teresa of Avila and Catherine of Sienna . Mr Howse opens his new collection with a brilliant introduction in which he shows the origin of the word comfort and how its true meaning has been traduced in common usage.

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About the Author

Christopher Howse is an assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular contributor to The Spectator and The Tablet. Among his bestselling books for Continuum are Prayers for This Life (2005) and The Assurance of Hope (2006). He is the author of How We Saw It: 150 years of The Daily Telegraph (2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826472974
• ISBN 13: 9780826472977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240