Works of Mercy

Renowned for his illustrations of literary classics by Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Fritz Eichenberg, who died in 1991 at the age of 90, was one of the world's master wood engravers. This collection contains his contemporary renderings of the life of Christ--among the homeless, hungry, and persecuted--from his 40 years of contributions to The Catholic Worker newspaper. 50 illustrations.

Robert Ellsberg, a native of Los Angeles, became a Catholic in 1980 while a member of the Catholic Worker house in downtown Manhattan. He now serves as editor-in-chief of "Orbis Books". Married with three children, he lives in Ossining, New York.