An exploration of the spiritual significance, practice, and history of the rosary explains the symbolism of the beads as they represent mysteries and events in the lives of Jesus and Mary, in an account that reflects on biblical teachings and cites the ways in which the rosary can reconnect readers [...]

"New York Times" bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize- winner Garry Wills interprets the four Gospels
Garry Wills's recent "New York Times" bestselling books "What Jesus Meant" and "What Paul Meant" were tour-de-force interpretations on Jesus and the Apostle Paul. Now Wills turns his remarkabl[...]

A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In "Verdi's Shakespeare, " Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: "Macbeth, Othello, "[...]

What is mathematics about? And if it is about some sort of mathematical reality, how can we have access to it? This is the problem raised by Plato, which still today is the subject of lively philosophical disputes. This book traces the history of the problem, from its origins to its contemporary tre[...]

Shakespeare's plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe's E[...]

In his most provocative book yet, Pulitzer Prize--winner Garry Wills asks the radical question: Why do we need priests?
Bestselling author of "Papal Sin" and "Why I Am a Catholic," Garry Wills spent five years as a young man at a Jesuit seminary and nearly became a priest himself. But after a l[...]

In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the "Confessions" - what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills' biography[...]

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