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Discerninghearts.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 Arbogg. 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.

In true Faustian tradition, the picture of Dorian Gray tells the tale of a young man who sells his soul

to the devil in return for youthful immortality, only to discover that the devil's bargain is no

bargain at all. What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

When Dorian Gray is asked this question, he knows the answer.

He has learned the lesson the hard way

and has added the destroyed lives of others into the bargain.

The moral is inescapable,

making the picture of Doreen Gray more than merely a classic of Victorian literature.

It is a classic of Christian literature. Joseph Pierce can speak

about the heart and mind of Oscar Wilde in a unique way. He's the author of The Unmasking of

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