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Title: The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd, Frederick Davidson ISBN: 0-7861-1521-1 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $85.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.52 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A true Life of St. Thomas More
Comment: Peter Ackroyd has written a superb biography of this great figure Renaissance England, and Catholic history. His depiction of the sheer geogprahy of More's London world is so real that it served as guide for this reviewer on a visit to London who could trace More's steps, copy in hand. Ackroyd puts the humanist scholar, statesman, and saint in his own context and avoids the all too common trap of trying to "read" More against our own post-Christian secular world, where heresy is a "virtue", rather than a threat to the stability of an entire social and spiritual order. The only complaint this reviewer has is that Ackroyd has chosen to quote More's English works in their original spelling and grammar. This at times approximates reading a foreign language. It is this reviewer's opinion that he would have done better to use a more modern English, as his translations of More's Latin works are clear and eminently readable. All in all, however, a superb book !
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most elegant biographies I've ever read!
Comment: As a voracious biography reader I have never come across a more loving, generous, and fascinating biography than this one by Peter Ackroyd. The book is resplendent with tales of life in the latter part of the middle ages. It is not only a biography but a cornucopia of interesting facts about this period of history. The author shows a remarkable ability to take you from the Christian baptism of Thomas More all the way to his death as a martyr under the brutish reign of King Henry the VIII. One of the most stunning, prolific, polished biographies I have ever read in my life! I highly recommend this one for anyone interested in history and in the life of Thomas More.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best contempory text on the life of St. Thomas More!
Comment: Peter Ackroyd is a master of drawing the reader into the experience of Thomas More. He provides a well researched and eloquent work that justly portrays the man and saint. Even though Sir Thomas More was emersed in the difficulties of state politics, economics, and law, Peter Ackroyd never loses sight of More's deep Catholic faith: "[The Mass] was the single most important aspect of his life, and the source from which much of his earnestness and his irony, his gravity and his playfulness, springs" (112).
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Title: The King's Good Servant but God's First : The Life and Writings of Saint Thomas More by James Monti ISBN: 0898706254 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Last Letters of Thomas More by Thomas More, Alvaro De Silva, Thomas Moore ISBN: 0802843948 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: 06 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title:A Man for All Seasons ASIN: 6305252564 Publisher: Columbia/Tristar Studios Pub. Date: 10 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.36 |
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Title: Four Last Things: The Supplication of Souls: A Dialogue on Conscience by Thomas More ISBN: 1889334650 Publisher: Scepter Publications Pub. Date: 02 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Sadness of Christ by Thomas More ISBN: 0933932669 Publisher: Scepter Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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