num_pages: 452
description: Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of the greatest writers in the English 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. The role of George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells in intensifying the religious debate despite not being converts themselves is also considered. Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief surprising or even controversial. Whatever viewpoint we may have Literary Converts touches on some of the most important questions of the twentieth century making it a fascinating read.
language: English
title: Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief
publisher: Ignatius Pr