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The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present the
second volume in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will
attempt to bring new attention to prose work of Catholic women
writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a
best selling author who had published over 50 books in her
lifetime, few of which remain in print since her death in 1956. 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.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Samuel Richardson; Regent Library Sheila Kaye-Smith, Samuel
Richardson F.G. Browne, 1913
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