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OverviewThe Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present the second volume in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will attempt to bring new attention to prose work of Catholic women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a best selling author who had published over 50 books in her lifetime, few of which remain in print since her death in 1956. The End of the House of Alard (1922) documents the choices made by the final generation of the aristocratic Alard family and the ways in which they, both willingly and reluctantly, bring the long line of their ancestral blood to a complete and sudden end. For some of them, the end of the Alard line is as painful to enact as it is for others to witness; for others it is welcomed as a necessary modernization or a true realignment toward religious integity and universal human truth. Some of the family's children yearn for individual liberty; others have it forced upon them. But none of them can find it under the burden of the Alard name and its crumbling estate. The End of the House of Alard is a novel about the human need for purpose, for a truth by which to live and for which to die. It is a novel about faith and idolatry, love and death, freedom and bondage, nature and grace. Put another way, it is about how human beings cannot escape the great challenge of salvation, of breaking free from false, man made gods in order to unite instead with the divine love of Christ. The novel's characters span a breadth of options on this spectrum and their various outlooks on life continue to reflect those available to us today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sheila Kaye-Smith , Bonnie Lander Johnson , Julia Meszaros , Julia MeszarosPublisher: The Catholic University of America Press Imprint: The Catholic University of America Press Weight: 0.293kg ISBN: 9780813235622ISBN 10: 0813235626 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 30 August 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSheila Kaye-Smith (1887-1956) was a bestselling author of novels about Sussex throughout the first half of the 20th Century. She was a leader of the Oxford movement before she converted to Catholicism after which she maintained a parish church on her Sussex farm when there were still very few Catholic churches in rural Britain. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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