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Morris L. West

    April 26, 1916 – October 9, 1999

    Morris West masterfully explores the complex interplay of faith, power, and conscience, often setting his narratives within the crucible of religious and political arenas. His writing is distinguished by a profound psychological insight into the human condition and the moral quandaries individuals face. West delves into the internal struggles and external pressures that shape his characters' destinies. Drawing from extensive experience in religious and diplomatic circles, his novels offer deeply human and thought-provoking reading.

    Morris L. West
    The World is Made of Glass
    McCreary Moves in
    The Salamander
    The Shoes of the Fisherman
    The lovers
    The Last Confession
    • 2000

      In Morris West's last novel he brings a real man, denounced as a heretic and burnt at the stake 400 years ago, back to life.

      The Last Confession
    • 1999

      Der Direktor eines New Yorker Bankhauses gibt ohne Ankündigung sein bisheriges Leben auf und setzt sich mit unbekanntem Ziel nach Europa ab. Das erfolgreiche Unternehmen gerät in die Krise.

      Der Verschwundene
    • 1998

      Eminence

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(24)Add rating

      Imagine that a Pope, known for his doctrinal conservatism, were to die and his private diaries were revealed to be full of doubts about his papacy and the future of the Catholic Church. Such is the hypothesis of Morris West's tale of Vatican politics. At its heart is Luca, Cardinal Rossini, who has suffered torture and degradation as a priest under Argentinian dictatorship but who has risen to high office in the Vatican. He is a flawed man but he is still a man of power and a candidate for election. Just as his career seems poised to reach its zenith, he is plunged back into his past, reminded of a love affair which had seemed dead. Morris West, best-selling author The Shoes of the Fisherman and The Devil's Advocate, has fashioned a thrilling tale of ambition and power-broking in the world of Vatican politics that he knows so well.

      Eminence
    • 1998

      Deti slnka

      • 211 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Cieľom autora bolo zmapovať život detí od batoľaťa až po dospelosť a presvedčiť sa, čo z nich Neapol vykreše...

      Deti slnka
    • 1996

      A View From the Ridge

      The Testimony of a Twentieth-Century Christian

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      The best-selling author of The Shoes of the Fisherman offers a lyrical, intensely personal affirmation of his life of faith and an account of his life's pilgrimage as a Catholic in the twentieth century. 20,000 first printing.

      A View From the Ridge
    • 1993

      Bryan de Courcy Cavanagh, Australian in Paris, is a top-notch international lawyer and a happily married New York gentleman. Until a sealed letter arrives from Rome on his sixty-fifth birthday, bearing the arms of the ancient house of Farnese di Mongrifone. It is a summons from the woman he loved and lost forty years ago in the stormy world of post-war Europe.

      The lovers
    • 1992