Lord of the World in a Nutshell, by Joseph Pearce

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, July 16, 2022

Joseph Pearce a senior contributor to Crisis. He is director of book publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. …

Robert Hugh Benson is best known for historical fiction. In novels such as The King’s Achievement, By What Authority?  and Come Rack! Come Rope! he takes the reader into the dark and deadly heart of the Tudor Terror during the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I in the sixteenth century. In The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary, the reader is taken a century further back in time to the happier, merrier England of the early fifteenth century to meet the colorful character of “Master Richard,” a holy hermit on a God-given mission. …