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The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers

Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays

by Dorothy L. Sayers
Carole Vanderhoof
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In this anthology, renowned murder mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers tackles faith, doubt, human nature, and the most dramatic story ever told.
For almost a century, a series of labyrinthine murder mysteries have kept fans turning pages hungrily as Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane discover whodunit, again and again.
Detective novel enthusiasts may not know that for almost as many years, Christian thinkers have appreciated the same Dorothy L. Sayers for her acumen as an essayist, playwright, apologist, and preeminent translator of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Now, for the first time, an anthology brings together the best of both worlds. The selections uncover the gospel themes woven throughout Sayers's popular fiction as well as her religious plays, correspondence, talks, and essays. Clues dropped throughout her detective stories reveal an attention to matters of faith that underlies all her work.
Those who know Sayers from her nonfiction writings may wonder how she could also write popular genre fiction. Sayers, like her friend G. K. Chesterton, found murder mysteries a vehicle to explore the choices characters make between good and evil. Along with C. S. Lewis and the other Inklings, with whom she maintained a lively correspondence, Sayers used her popular fiction to probe deeper questions. She addressed not only matters of guilt and innocence, sin and redemption, but also the cost of war, the role of the conscience, and the place of women in society.
None of these themes proved any hindrance to spinning a captivating yarn. Her murder mysteries are more reminiscent of Jane Austen than Arthur Conan Doyle, with all the tense interpersonal exploration of the modern novel.

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    The Gospel in Great Writers

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    October 30, 2018

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      September 15, 2018
      Though arguably best known for her 12 mystery novels featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers was also a prodigious and serious wordsmith, the author of plays, letters, essays, lectures, and a highly regarded translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. That she was a Christian apologist � la C. S. Lewis (whose Appreciation concludes this volume) is made manifest by Vanderhoof in this generous selection of excerpts from Sayers' wide-ranging work, all of which is informed by Gospel themes such as conscience, sin and grace, covetousness, pride, despair and hope, and much more. As a result, Sayers' post-Wimsey reputation as an apologist grew, to her chagrin, for by then she regarded herself as a playwright. Altogether, Vanderhoof offers 20 generous selections from the work?actually more, since each major selection is accompanied by subselections; thus, an excerpt from the Wimsey novel Strong Poison is accompanied by an early poem and a lengthy magazine article titled Forgiveness and the Enemy. This multifaceted volume is sure to expand Sayers' reputation, not only as a writer but also as a thinker.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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