An Average Man
Published on 1. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-1-60210-008-4 (ISBN)
Description
The fourth of Robert Hugh Benson's "mainstream" novels, "An Average Man," first published in 1913, is a far from average production. The novel may well be Benson's finest achievement, ripping to shreds the assumptions on which Edwardian upper class society believed civilization itself was built. Worldly success destroys one "average man," while it presents another, afflicted with seemingly endless and crushing defeats, with the opportunity of practicing virtue of a heroic stature. This edition features a foreword by Benson scholar Michael D. Greaney.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60210-008-4 (9781602100084)
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With a degree in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame and MBA from the University of Evansville, Indiana, Michael D. Greaney is Director of Research for the interfaith Center for Economic and Social Justice in Arlington, Virginia. In that capacity he participated in the presentation of a seminar at the Vatican hosted by Achille Cardinal Silvestrini on the importance of widespread capital ownership in combating global poverty, and co-edited the compendium, Curing World Poverty: The New Role of Property (1994). He has appeared on the Eternal Word Television Network's EWTN Live with Father Mitch Pacwa and Bookmark with Doug Keck. He is the author of Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know (2018) from TAN Books, Easter Witness (2016) about the 1916 Rising in Dublin, Ireland, So Much Generosity (2013) about the fiction of Cardinals Wiseman and Newman and Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson, and a number of other works.