Product Description: Eliot’s Four Quartets is arguably the finest long poem in modern English literature. It is also one that presents considerable problems of interpretation. In Word Unheard, first published in 1969, Blamires aims to unravel some of these problems by guiding the reader line by line through the poem, blending paraphrase with commentary...read more

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] A now classic book with insights as fresh and relevant today as they were in the 1960s. Harry Blamires, a noted British Christian thinker who started writing through the encouragement of C...read more

Product Description: Where do we stand? inquires into the nature of our secularist, materialistic civilization and offers a thoughtful Christian response. Blamires focuses on point of antagonism between the Christian faith and the assumptions of modernity...read more

This title has a simple thesis: to write well you need to think clearly about what you want to say. The author brings the reader's common sense into play to illustrate how by thinking through what you want to say and how you say it, you can communicate both effectively and elegantly.

Product Description: What do you believe, and why do you believe it? On Christian Truth is a book for Christians seeking a deeper understanding of their faith. It is also a helpful summary for readers who are curious to know what Christians believe. Bringing his polished skills as a novelist, essayist and teacher, Harry Blamires shows how the great body of Christian doctrine fits together into a coherent, intellectually satisfying, and spiritually inspiring view of reality...read more

Product Description: When Bernard Dayman falls asleep, the nurse thinks he has died. Bernard thinks so too, until he opens his eyes and finds himself waiting for a bus on a street he had never traveled before. Is this heaven? No, it's the decaying city of Old Town...read more

A now classic book with insights as fresh and relevant today as they were in the 1960s. Harry Blamires, a noted British Christian thinker who started writing through the encouragement of C. S. Lewis, his tutor at Oxford, makes a perceptive diagnosis of some of the weaknesses besetting the church today. He argues that the distinctively Christian intellect is being swept away by secular modes of thought and secular assumptions about reality. Blamires calls for the recovery of the Christian mind and challenges ''not only secularism's assault upon personal morality and the life of the soul, but also secularism's truncated and perverted view of the meaning of life and the purpose of the social order.''

Product Description: "Fewer" or "less"; "different from" or "different to"; "to boldly go" or "to go boldly". The English language is a minefield of common errors and disputed points, but this book intends to be a hand to help. Dealing with wide-ranging problems of grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling, usage and style, all articles have examples of incorrect usage, drawn from contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, television and radio...read more

Product Description: In his classic book, Harry Blamires defined and explained the essential qualities of The Christian Mind. Here he exposes the agenda of the secular mind, vividly describing the way the media is trashing Christian principles in every area of life-human rights, marriage, family, morality, health, economy, environment, politics...read more

Product Description: Designed to help someone approaching Joyce for the first time reach a quicker understanding of the novel.

Product Description: Book by Blamires, Harry

Surveys the main periods, movements, figures, the achievements of British literature from Chaucer's time to the 1980s, emphasizing each writer's major work and the continuity of tradition within the genres

After visits to Purgatory and Hell, a modern Christian is convinced nothing can go wrong now that he is on the road to Heaven

Describes the historic background of the period, and discusses the work of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, and Hughes