Collection Subjects
Books in my collection land in one of two categories right now:
1. Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written
2. Books that portray a perspective of Catholic (or Christian) spirituality in some time, place, or culture. This can be through the eyes of a main character, a description of an event, or in the world of the story.
Some books land in both categories!
The Books (in Order Acquired)
Links are to posts I have written about each book.
- Shadows on the Rock – Willa Cather (WC) – First Edition
- Kristin Lavransdatter – Sigrid Undset – 1929 Nobel Prize Edition
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Easton Press (EP)
- Death Comes for the Archbishop – WC – 1st/1st
- Saphira and the Slave Girl – WC – 1st
- Joan of Arc (Vol I) – Mark Twain – 1918 Limp Leather Edition
- Confessions of St. Augustine – EP
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes – EP
- Theology of Home: Finding the Eternal in the Everyday
- My Mortal Enemy – WC – 1st/DJ
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville – EP
- My Antonia – WC – Book Club PB
- O Pioneers! – WC – Book Club HC
- Laurus – Eugene Vodolazkin – 1st English Edition
- Chateau & Country Life in France – Mary Waddington – 1st
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh – Little Red American Edition
- Thoughts, Critical and Practical, on the Book of Daniel and the Revelation – Uriah Smith – 1888 (SOLD)
- The Church & Modern Society – Archbishop John Ireland – 1st
- The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott – Waverley Novels
- Cape Cod – Thoreau – EP
- Walden – Thoreau – EP
- The Red & the Black – Stendhal – EP
- The Professor’s House – WC – 1st
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain – EP
- Two Plays of Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters – EP
- Candide, or Optimism – Voltaire – EP
- Lives of the Saints, Vol 10-12 – Butler (1846)
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott – EP
- Lives of the Saints, Vol 1-3 – Butler (1844)
- Socrates’ Children, Vol 1-4 – Kreeft
- Taking Stock – Dr. Jordan Grumet
- The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoyevsky- EP
The aim of collecting is threefold: Beauty (aesthetically and literary), Truth (intellectual growth), Goodness (shared appreciation for history and stories).
Descriptions & Details
More to come as I have time to explain why each book has a home on my shelf…