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St. Anthony: The Wonder-Worker of Padua
Perhaps the most moving preacher in Medieval Europe, St. Anthony of Padua, the son of a wealthy family in Portugal, gave up everything to follow Christ and join the Franciscans. This touching book recounts the wonderful life of this popular saint and Doctor of the Church. Come see what made St. Anthony so popular during his life and what makes him such an appealing saint for people today
For the Pleasure of His Company
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) was, during his life, an acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most popular works were dispatches primarily from the South Sea Islands but also extended into Palestine, Egypt, and what would become known as Hawai‘i, most of which were published in the San Francisco Chronicle and then collected into books. For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told (1903) is Stoddard’s only novel. This new edition, as with other works in Penn Press’s series Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century, returns and reframes an important queer literary text...
Genteel Pagan
A biography of a homosexual writer by a gay literary historian, this book offers not only the first published life of Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), but also a wealth of new material on the formation of gender roles in late 19th-century America.
South-sea Idyls
Seventeen tales of various islands in the Pacific Ocean.
South-Sea Idyls
"South-Sea Idyls" by Charles Warren Stoddard is a travelogue told in a series of letters to his friends back home in San Francisco published in 1873. His writing beautifully depicts how simply the South Seas islanders lived and describes the native traditions and the mesmerizing sunsets.
