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Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Book Suggestions. Released on the first and third Friday of each month, Greg & Jason each pick a book they have read and discuss and review it. They each give a quick synopsis of the book they chose, why they liked it, and who would be the best audience for it. This week Jason picked "Against All Opposition" by Greg Bahnsen, and Greg chose "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. Enjoy! Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Book Suggestions. Released on the first and third Friday of each month, Greg & Jason each pick a book they have read and discuss and review it. They each give a quick synopsis of the book they chose, why they liked it, and who would be the best audience for it. This week Jason picked "Against All Opposition" by Greg Bahnsen, and Greg chose "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. Enjoy! Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Mere Christianity : Part 1 A Christian apologetical book by the British author C. S. Lewis. It was adapted from a series of BBC radio talks made between 1941 and 1944, originally published as three separate volumes: Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944). The book consists of four parts: the first presents Lewis's arguments for the existence of God; the second contains his defence of Christian theology, including his notable "Liar, lunatic, or Lord" trilemma; the third has him exploring Christian ethics, among which are cardinal and theological virtues; in the final, he writes on the Christian conception of God. By Clives Stapleton Lewis, Professor at Cambridge University, England.  - Table of Contents Book 1. Right And Wrong As A Clue To The Meaning Of The Universe The Law of Human Nature Some Objections The Reality of the Law What Lies Behind the Law We Have Cause to Be Uneasy Book 2. What Christians Believe The Rival Conceptions of God The Invasion The Shocking Alternative The Perfect Penitent The Practical Conclusions Book 3. Christian Behavior The Three Parts of Morality The "Cardinal Virtues" Social Morality Morality and Psychoanalysis Sexual Morality Christian Marriage Forgiveness The Great Sin Charity Hope Faith Faith Book 4. Beyond Personality: Or First Steps In The Doctrine Of The Trinity Making and Begetting The Three-Personal God Time and Beyond Time Good Infection The Obstinate Toy Soldiers Two Notes Let's Pretend Is Christianity Hard or Easy? Counting the Cost Nice People or New Men The New Men

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Mere Christianity explores the core beliefs of Christianity by providing an unequaled opportunity for believers and nonbelievers alike to hear a powerful, rational case for the Christian faith. A brilliant collection, Mere Christianity remains strikingly fresh for the modern reader and at the same time confirms C. S. Lewis's reputation as one of the leading writer and thinkers of our age. The book brings together Lewis' legendary broadcast talks during World War II. Lewis discusses that everyone is curious about: right and wrong, human nature, morality, marriage, sins, forgiveness, faith, hope, generosity, and kindness.

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Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Welcome to Dead Men Walking Podcast Shorts! Released every Saturday, Greg sits down and discusses a biblical subject, theological term, or a cultural issue in five minutes or less. This week we did something a bit different, and played a five minute clip from chapter 7 of the C.S. Lewis classic "Mere Christianity" on the subject of forgiveness. It's very fitting for out time. We Enjoy!Support the showBe sure to check out our merch store at www.dmwpodcast.com and follow us on all social media accounts @DeadMenWalkingPodcast Thanks for listening and be sure to tell a friend! All Glory to God!

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis (2001) 

1Spirits in Bondage

By C. S. Lewis

<em>Spirits in Bondage</em> is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton and was written in a period of darker thought for C.S. Lewis than was later evidenced in his Christian apologist writings.<br /><br />The darkness of the verse is most evident in Part One (The Prison House), begins to change in the short transitional Part Two (Hesitation) and attains a more hopeful tone in the final Part Three (Escape). Yet a dreamy effect, influenced by Celtic and Druid mythology, persists throughout.<br /><br /><em>Spirits in Bondage</em> consists of forty poems that provide an intriguing insight into the youthful heart of C.S. Lewis and occasionally provides interesting lyrical foreshadowing of some of the landscapes portrayed in his famous <em>Chronicles of Narnia</em> series.<br> (Summary by Robert Garrison)

2Main Street

By Sinclair Lewis

Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart. When they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Carol is appalled at the backwardness of Gopher Prairie. But her disdain for the town's physical ugliness and smug conservatism compels her to reform it. (Summary from Wikipedia).

3Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

By Sinclair Lewis

Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his style and immense talent are certainly evident. <BR><BR>We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson, son of Norwegian immigrants, born at the end of the 19th century through the first three adventurous periods of the young man’s life. We see him as an adventurous boy, running away with Gertie Cowels, the girl that lives in the big house in the better part of town, only to be rescued by Bone Stillman, a backwoods philosopher and influence on Carl. <BR><BR>We travel with him as he leaves his childhood, Gertie and Joralemon behind, for a short attempt at higher education, then to pursue the hobo life, a Bowery bartender, an engineer in Panama and an aviator. It is during the aviator phase that he becomes Hawk Ericson barnstorming his way across America, an exciting but dangerous lifestyle. Leaving aviation after too many close calls, and the loss of his best friend, he becomes an automobile man, and moves into phase three.<BR><BR>It is in phase three, love adventure, that we find The Hawk in New York, mingling with polite society quite by accident. He is smitten by Ruth Winslow, while riding on a streetcar after a fight with Gertie, and follows Ruth to a party which he crashes.<BR><BR>I truly enjoyed narrating this novel, and believe the listener will enjoy it, a trip into post Victorian, pre-Jazz Age America.<BR>(Summary by Mike Vendetti)

4Babbitt

By Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat” response.<BR><BR> Male menopause wasn’t a pre Great Depression term, but I would say George has all the symptoms. At a pudgy balding forty six he looks at his life, wife, family and business. He sees himself as a pretty successful business man, but when Tanis, the lonely widow, has a leaky roof, he sees an opportunity for perhaps a more fulfilling relationship then he has at home. Add to Tanis a foray into radical politics, and we are about to whiteness an emotional and financial train wreck with Babbitt at the throttle.<BR><BR> This is a long story, but well worth listening to. Human nature hasn’t changed much in the last ninety years. Enjoy the novel (Summary by Mike Vendetti)

"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean, has had all the success which could be expected. They have traced the Missouri nearly to its source; descended the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, ascertained with accuracy the Geography, of that interesting communication across the continent; learned the character of the country, its commerce and inhabitants; and it is but justice to say that Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their brave companions, have, by this arduous service, deserved well of their country." This volume is the 1840 edition with woodcut images and an Indian vocabulary. They may be viewed by clicking on the text URL. (Summary in quotes by President Thomas Jefferson)

6Free Air

By Sinclair Lewis

This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by a noble but simple commoner she meets along the way. Lewis is at his usual wryly humorous self, poking fun at the upper class and treating the common people only slightly better. Summary by Hollis Hanover.

7Job

By Sinclair Lewis

'The Job' is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the main character, Una Golden, who desires to establish herself in a legitimate occupation while balancing the eventual need for marriage. The story takes place in the early 1900-1920's and takes Una from a small Pennsylvania town to New York. Forced to work due to family illness, Una shows a talent for the traditional male bastion of commercial real estate and, while valued by her company, she struggles to achieve the same status of her male coworkers. On a parallel track, her quest for traditional romance and love is important but her unique role as a working woman... makes it tough to find an appropriate suitor. (Summary by Wikipedia)

8Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

By Sinclair Lewis

"At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at a desk behind the stock-room. He was a meek little bachelor--a person of inconspicuous blue ready-made suits, and a small unsuccessful mustache." Mr. Wrenn, however has a rich inner life embellished by his own imagination. When he comes into a modest inheritance, he feels he ought to learn to get out and wander a bit, and then his education begins. He finds life more "interesting", perhaps than he had "imagined". . . (Introduction by Don Jenkins)

9Innocents, A Story for Lovers

By Sinclair Lewis

“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, or of cuddling together in corners, and Father was a person of stubborn youthfulness.” It is only by subterfuge that Seth is able every year to obtain his two week's vacation from the shoe store, and they are off to the farm-house of Uncle Joe Tubbs on Cape Cod. But this year the vacation turns into a full blown scheme to open a country tea room somewhere on Cape Cod, and their life suddenly begins to change. . . . (Introduction by Don W. Jenkins)

Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of the supernatural. It includes several subplots: rape, torture and incest. It is the old story of the forces of good versus the forces of evil, except that in this one evil comes out ahead.<br /><br /> When The Monk was first published in 1795, it was received well by readers and reviewers causing a second edition to be printed the following year. But by the third year, there began a growing criticism of the book and of Lewis mostly on the basis of immorality. In fact, the book caused such a scandal that Lewis published another version complete with redactions and entire rewrites so as to remove the shame it had brought upon his family and the political institution of which he was a part.<br /><br /> The Monk finds itself straddling the genres of Gothicism and Decadence, and includes elements of Romanticism. Lewis also chose to blend the roles of gender in this work--particularly in the character of Rosario/Matilda. The sexual tension between Ambrosio and this character--along with the eventual revelation of true identity--are an exposé on the topic of same-sex love and makes this work an early contribution to LGBT literature.<br /><br /> In spite of the mountains of criticism against the book, it remained a best seller well into the 19th century. The version I will read for you is the unexpurgated version including all of the “scandal and immorality” of the original. (Introduction by James K. White)

11Hidden Treasures

By Harry A. Lewis

"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began life poor." A selection of mini-biographies teaches us how some successful men have overcome odds to make their mark on history. (Summary by Lynne Thompson; quote from Introduction)

Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel <I>The Monk</I> is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, <I>The Castle Spectre</I> is one of Lewis' earliest forays into drama, and a strong indication of his talents as a controversial and frightening entertainer. Set in medieval Conway, Wales, the play is filled with every delicious Gothic trope imaginable: a menacing castle, a villainous nobleman hiding terrible secrets, a virginal damsel in distress, an heroic lover trying to save her, several comedic supporting characters, and, yes, the presence of a ghost. Popular when it was first staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1797, <I>The Castle Spectre</I> is an irresistible confection that deftly mixes light farce and romance with dark tragedy, keeping you on the edge of your seat right up to the final epilogue. Summary by Tomas Peter<br><br><b>Cast List:</b><br>Osmond: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11535">Nemo</a><br>Reginald: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6065">David Olson</a><br>Percy: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10789">Tomas Peter</a><br>Father Philip: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8879">Son of the Exiles</a><br>Motley: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>Kenric: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11622">Patrick Saville</a><br>Saib: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10087">Sandra Schmit</a><br>Hassan: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8677">KHand</a><br>Muley: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11354">Kieren Metts</a><br>Alaric: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11706">RecordingPerson</a><br>Allan: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11305">Craig Franklin</a><br>Edric: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11417">Eva Davis</a><br>Harold: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10289">Tony Addison</a><br>Chorus: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br>Angela: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10614">Leanne Yau</a><br>Alice: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a><br>Evelina: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/1649">Kalynda</a><br>Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7079">Chuck Williamson</a><br>Editor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a>

13Main Street (Version 2)

By Sinclair Lewis

Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of Gopher Prairie. She arrives with dreams of beautifying the town, of establishing art and culture, of improving lives and promoting child welfare, but whose spirit is gradually and inexorably crushed by small-town attitudes, ignorance and bigotry. First published in 1920, Main Street is Sinclair Lewis' first major novel, and was a phenomenal success at the time. In 1930 Lewis would be the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. - Summary by Mark Nelson

As featured in The Best Short Stories of 1918, The Willow Walk is a trenchant tale of an elaborate heist by a dissolute man who gradually loses his mind in the process. The twist ending also should have won Lewis an O. Henry Award. - Summary by Matt Pierard

The second original tragedy written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, <I>Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error</i> is a markedly more serious affair than his melodramatic output, dealing as it does with a fallen woman who is mercilessly blackmailed by a ruthless tyrant when she spurns his advances. Set in Otranto during the High Middle Ages, and featuring fictionalized depictions of historical rulers Robert Guiscard (of the Normans) and Michael Ducas (of Byzantium), <i>Adelgitha</i> is an archetypal Gothic drama that, while not especially refined or meritorious in terms of quality, still manages to thrill in that deliciously overwrought way that Lewis knew how to sell. Sit down with it during a stormy night, turn off the lights, and prepare yourself for a few hours of treachery, murder, madness and despair! - Summary by Tomas Peter <br> <br> Michael Ducas, Emperor of Byzantium: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10789">Tomas Peter</a><br>Robert Guiscard, Prince of Apulia: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8425">Larry Wilson</a><br>Lothair, a Norman knight: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>Alciphron, a Grecian nobleman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12665">Sam Monsen</a><br>Dercetus, a Grecian nobleman: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11790">TJ Burns</a><br>Rainulf, an officer of Guiscard: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/8879">Son of the Exiles</a><br>Julian, an officer of Guiscard: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/7170">Alan Mapstone</a><br>Adelgitha, Princess of Apulia: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10614">Leanne Yau</a><br>Imma, Princess of Byzantium: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11084">Devorah Allen</a><br>The Abbess of St. Hilda: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10087">Sandra Schmit</a><br>Claudia, an Italian lady: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10179">Sonia</a><br>Chorus: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/2156">Roger Melin</a><br>Female Peasants: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/11417">Eva Davis</a> & <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/10995">April6090</a><br><br>Narrator: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/12500">Foon</a><br>Editor: <a href="https://librivox.org/reader/6754">ToddHW</a><br>

16Monk: A Romance (Version 2)

By Matthew Lewis

As one of the pioneers of Gothic fiction, this classic novel is seriously underrated. The story revolves around Ambrosio, the abbot, who is the epitome of a devout monk to the world, but in reality is the embodiment of lust and debauchery. The novel is full of creepy narrative (sporadically),surrealism, euphemisms, compelling scenes, sexual hysteria and romantic subplots. (Summary by shreyasethi)

This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several intervening ventures, becomes a medical researcher in New York. A widespread killer plague takes him to a Caribbean island to produce and inject sera and do research. Fascinating characters, some professional, others romantic, impact his life. Striking similarities of the epidemic in this novel to the pandemic of the 2020's may today seem prophetic. The author won the 1930 Nobel Prize in literature, chiefly for "Arrowsmith". (Lee Smalley)

A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. <br><br> The present . . . volume is . . . commended as a trustworthy record to those for whose use and reference it is primarily intended—life insurance companies and agents, medical examiners, insurance lawyers, and medico-legal experts. . . . [It] is not confined to the exposure of the cunning contrivances and artifices of this class of schemers and plotters; it includes picturesque views of detection and punishment; of the determined efforts of the companies, at whatever cost, to run them down; of the machinery of courts of justice; of the gloom of the prison cell; of the dark outlines of the scaffold. The cases in this book are for the most part more suggestive or instructive to detective agencies than to conspirators. . . . These narratives also show that no community has a monopoly of the piratical adventurers who thus prey upon beneficent institutions. They are of all nationalities as well as of both sexes, and everywhere alike "to no code or creed confined." - Summary by TriciaG and from the Preface

This is a narrative poem written by C.S. Lewis, begun in his teen years and published when he was a tutor at Oxford. It appeared in print under the pseudonym of "Clive Hamilton," which is the author's own first name and his mother's maiden name.<br><br> The story begins in "The Perfect City," a place instantly recognizable to a modern audience as a classic dystopia. Dymer lives in this city until the age of nineteen, when he suddenly rebels, breaking the laws of the city and striking out into the wilderness alone. The rest of the story tells of his search for meaning, identity, and the fulfillment of his longings.<br><br> This book was not well received at the time of its publication and remains largely unknown. Many reasons for this have been suggested, but perhaps the simplest is just that the poem is difficult to understand. It is a complex work, and Dymer's character changes in some profound ways throughout the story. Especially for those who are familiar with Lewis' other work, however, or that of his "master," George MacDonald, this will be an engaging experience. - Summary by Devorah Allen

This novel tells the story of a young, charismatic, and morally corrupt salesman who becomes involved in evangelism. Gantry's involvement in the revivalist circuit brings him into contact with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher, and Lulu Bains, a former acquaintance who has become a prostitute. The novel explores themes of hypocrisy, greed, and the corrupting influence of power and fame. It was a bestseller upon its release and was adapted into a fabulous film in 1960 starring Burt Lancaster as Gantry. - Summary by William Jones

Janet Lewis was an American poet and novelist who studied at the University of Chicago. The Indians in the Woods – ‘Imagistic in technique’, as the poet Helen Pinkerton declared – was her first collection of poetry and took as its subject her interest in indigenous peoples and cultures. It was published by Monroe Wheeler as the first book in the Manikin series. - Summary by Newgatenovelist

Very popular in its day, Romantic Tales is a collection of passionate, thrilling and macabre gothic stories and poems by well-regarded and controversial author Matthew Lewis, creator of the scandalous supernatural gothic novel The Monk. - Summary by Ben Tucker

23Dodsworth

By Sinclair Lewis

Set in the 1920s, "Dodsworth tells the story of an automobile magnate, Samuel Dodsworth, who retires in his 50s and, in order to please his beloved wife, embarks on a new life as a European traveler. While there, he discovers that her real purpose for the permanent European vacation was to hold on to her youth, while attracting as many men--and potential lovers--as possible. Distraught at the seeming dissolution of their 20-year marriage, Sam tries to learn from and adapt to the European way of life, while desperately trying to find purpose, meaning, and love in his own existence. - Summary by Keely Brown

24Monk: A Romance

By Matthew Lewis

Ambrosio is the Abbot of the Capuchins, the Idol of Madrid, the "Man of Holiness" but a chance encounter with a mysterious novice harboring a dark secret sends the secluded monk into a struggle with temptation. Now torn between desire and faith, he finds himself spiraling down a dark road of increasing depravity as he wrestles with his conscience, will he listen to it before it's too late for his soul? Meanwhile Don Raymond, Marquis de las Cisternas struggles to find a way to reunite with his lover who has become a nun and enlists the help of her brother who is having romantic troubles of his own. - Summary by Inkell