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Discerning Hearts.com presents great works in Western literature with Joseph Pierce,

who is an internationally acclaimed author and literary scholar whose work explores the great writers of Western literature through a Catholic and classical lens.

He has written numerous best-selling books on figures such as Shakespeare, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton,

Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and El Arbaleck. A frequent lecture and longtime contributor

to EWTN, he serves as visiting professor of literature at Ave Maria University and as editor

of St. Austin Review.

Great Works in Western Literature with Joseph Pierce.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor.

Joseph, thank you so much for joining me.

It's good as always.

How exciting to be able to talk about a book that until you mentioned it actually,

I had never really been familiar with or was even aware of Pilgrim's Regress by C.S. Lewis.

Yes, in many ways it's the great neglected work by Lewis that most people don't seem to know.

People know obviously the Chronicles of Narnia and they know his famous works of apologetics,

such as mere Christianity or miracles, but very few seem to know the Pilgrim's Regress, which was actually

just about, except for his poetry, just about his earliest published work, published in 1933.

And I think a fascinating work for all sorts of reasons.

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