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Explore fiction, literary and musical history, religious research, translations, and independent publishing projects.
From the Gadfly Saga to studies of Faust, Handel, cultural history, and Catholic tradition, these works span fiction, scholarship, and translation.
They share a common thread: the pursuit of truth, meaning, and the ideas that shape human lives.
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Two lives. Two very different callings.
Different paths. One shared pursuit of truth, courage, and fidelity.
Begin with Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Continue with Vocation of a Gadfly
Spiritual Classics in Translation
The Works of Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J. (1813–1892)
Born to privilege, Fr. Marin de Boylesve relinquished his title to enter the priesthood.
His writings would support the spiritual life of nineteenth-century France—including the movement that helped raise the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur above Paris.
Explore These Spiritual Classics by Fr. Marin de Boylesve, S.J.
One Legend. Centuries of Transformation.
Across two volumes, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World traces one of Western literature’s most enduring legends from its historical roots.
Beginning with the early German Faust books, and Marlowe’s drama, it culminates in Goethe’s monumental reinterpretation.
Following Faust through literature, theatre, music, art, and cultural history, the study examines how a warning about forbidden knowledge became a profound exploration of ambition, temptation, redemption, and the human soul.
Explore Volume I — The Faust Legend Before Goethe
Continue to Volume II — Goethe’s Faust and Its Legacy
Where Music Meets Art, Theatre, and History
These studies approach music as part of the wider culture that created it—shaped by patrons, politics, theatres, visual art, literature, and changing ideas.
Handel’s Path to Covent Garden examines the turbulent theatrical and cultural forces surrounding Handel’s London career and his work at Covent Garden.
A Compendium of Essays ranges from Purcell, Hogarth, and Handel to Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, tracing unexpected connections across centuries of artistic life.
Where Mystery, Music, and Poetry Meet
“The Opera Ghost really existed,” Gaston Leroux declared—and his enigmatic Phantom continues to haunt the imaginations of readers and theatre lovers.
Phantom Phantasia celebrates Leroux’s world of mystery, passion, and unrequited love through twenty richly illustrated poems, ranging in mood from the serious to the comic.
Enter the World of Phantom Phantasia
Free Reading & Research
Explore complimentary studies in literature, prophecy, faith, and cultural interpretation.
A Mystic of Brittany. A Mission of Warning and Hope.
Born in 1850 near Blain in Brittany, Marie-Julie Jahenny was the eldest child of a devout, hardworking family. Her quiet rural life would become inseparable from an extraordinary mission of prayer, sacrifice, and suffering for souls.
Her reported prophecies warned of chastisements while also announcing the promised restoration of Christendom through the Great Monarch and the Angelic Pontiff.
Read We Are Warned: The Prophecies of Marie-Julie Jahenny
Discover Marie-Julie of the Crucifix: Stigmatist and Prophet
When Fantasy Echoes Prophecy
Darkness spreads, war threatens the land, and the earth itself is convulsed—yet hope remains. A small company resists an overwhelming evil while a hidden king returns to reclaim and restore his realm.
Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies considers whether Tolkien’s Catholic imagination may have drawn upon—or strikingly echoed—older prophecies concerning chastisement, the Great Monarch, and the restoration of Christendom.
Read Lord of the Rings: Apocalyptic Prophecies — Free PDF
