The end of the House of Alard / Sheila Kaye-Smith, Bonnie Lander Johnson, and Julia Meszaros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaye-Smith, Sheila, 1887-1956, author.

Lander, Bonnie, 1977- author.

Meszaros, Julia T. (Julia Theresa), 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction.

English fiction--History and criticism.

Genre:

Romans.

Novels.

Fictional Work

English fiction.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The End of the House of Alard (1922) documents the choices made by the final generation of the aristocratic Alard family and the ways in which they, both willingly and reluctantly, bring the long line of their ancestral blood to a complete and sudden end. For some of them, the end of the Alard line is as painful to enact as it is for others to witness; for others it is welcomed as a necessary modernization or a true realignment toward religious integity and universal human truth. Some of the family's children yearn for individual liberty; others have it forced upon them. But none of them can find it under the burden of the Alard name and its crumbling estate. The End of the House of Alard is a novel about the human need for purpose, for a truth by which to live and for which to die. It is a novel about faith and idolatry, love and death, freedom and bondage, nature and grace. Put another way, it is about how human beings cannot escape the great challenge of salvation, of breaking free from false, man made gods in order to unite instead with the divine love of Christ. The novel's characters span a breadth of options on this spectrum and their various outlooks on life continue to reflect those available to us today"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kaye-Smith, Sheila The End of the House of Alard

ISBN:

0-8132-3563-4

OCLC:

1312652775