{"title":"Classical Literature","description":"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/stgeorgebooks.com\/pages\/books\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #990000;\"\u003e\u0026lt; Back\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-leaves-are-falling-a-novel","title":"The Leaves Are Falling: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn octogenarian bookseller living alone in London has found a description of his father, as a young doctor in 1920s Breslau, in a story about Weimar Germany. Perhaps his own story might be worth telling?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1945, as a sixteen-year-old boy rescued from the ruins of Europe, he arrives at a Yorkshire farmhouse. Working on the farm for two years in the strange atmosphere of rural England immediately after World War II, he learns to deal with his memories of what happened to him and to his family and to trust, up to a point, those around him in a foreign country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLondon in 1947 is stranger still. But he is lucky, as he has been since 1941, when marksmen tried to shoot him into a pit full of corpses in a Lithuanian forest. The year before, different executioners in a different forest further east had shot and killed his father.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose who faced the worst atrocities of World War II, which were inflicted on people in the \"bloodlands\" of eastern Poland and western Russia, knew that there was little to choose between the two mighty machines, Nazi and Soviet. How was it possible for the individual to survive the crushing wheels of ideology, terror, and mass murder with his integrity intact? \u003ci\u003eThe Leaves Are Falling\u003c\/i\u003e, a sequel to \u003ci\u003eA Postcard from the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e but a stand-alone story, explores this question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Lucy Beckett\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover: 314 pages \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. George Catholic Books \u0026 Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":3374367941,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4667\/products\/leaves.jpg?v=1435024534"},{"product_id":"the-brothers-karamazov","title":"The Brothers Karamazov","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eThe Brothers Karamazov\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is widely recognized as one of the greatest novels ever written. Its power lies not in the drama between the brothers, the intrigue of its murder mystery, or the suspense of its courtroom finale, but in the questions at its heart: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eIs God real? And if He is, then what does that mean for me?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan aria-label=\"\" class=\"c-mrkdwn__br\" data-stringify-type=\"paragraph-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt its core, it is a story of fathers and sons—of a father’s sins and the brokenness of his children, each struggling with who God is and what they owe to one another. Dmitri’s reckless passion mirrors his father’s corruption, Ivan’s cold rationalism rebels against it, and Alyosha’s tender compassion reflects the quiet holiness of his mentor, the soldier-turned-monk Father Zossima.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan aria-label=\"\" class=\"c-mrkdwn__br\" data-stringify-type=\"paragraph-break\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough their tragic, comic, and deeply human collision, Dostoevsky shows how sin and love ripple outward, shaping the lives of all who are connected to us. He invites each of us to step toward mercy: to confront our divided hearts, to return to God, and to be drawn back into authentic communion with one another. In the end, as Father Zossima teaches, “Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ave Maria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53083904082133,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4667\/files\/Brothers_Karamazov_by_Dostoevesky.webp?v=1770156049"}],"url":"https:\/\/saintgeorgeco.com\/en-ca\/collections\/classic-literature.oembed","provider":"St. George ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}