Robert Hugh Benson
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Food for Thought in Benson’s Lord of the World
A very happy new year to you all! I can hardly believe it’s 2018 already. The number just sounds so… futuristic. Speaking of which, my first review for the year goes back 111 years in order to go forward to about the present day, with John Hugh Benson’s futuristic-dystopian novel, Lord of the World. I Continue reading
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Lord of the World – Episode 7
Here we uncover another dystopian classic: Robert Hugh Benson’s little-known novel from 1907, Lord of the World. Sources / Further Reading:List of Dystopian Literature (Wikipedia)Article on Benson by The Catholic World ReportSummary of papal statements (Wikipedia)Interview with Pope Francis by Catholic News Agency (2015) Continue reading
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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